The traditional emphasis when measuring performance in animal cognition has been
overwhelmingly on accuracy, independent of decision time. However, more recently, it has …

Animal camouflage represents one of the most important ways of preventing (or facilitating)
predation. It attracted the attention of the earliest evolutionary biologists, and today remains …

Camouflage–adaptations that prevent detection and/or recognition–is a key example of
evolution by natural selection, making it a primary focus in evolutionary ecology and animal …

The mechanisms and functions of reversible colour change in arthropods are highly diverse
despite, or perhaps due to, the presence of an exoskeleton. Physiological colour changes …

'Accounting for the sensory abilities of animals is critical in experimental design.'No
researcher would disagree with this statement, yet it is often the case that we inadvertently …

Deals with all aspects of adaptive resemblance Full colour Covers everything from classic
examples of Batesian, Mullerian, aggressive and sexual mimicries through to human …

Biological photonic systems composed of anhydrous guanine crystals evolved separately in
several taxonomic groups. Here, two such systems found in fish and spiders, both of which …

This book is a result of 20 years of my interest in reading and thinking about the bizarre
phenomenon of mimicry. This journey has brought me from the standard scientific world …

Studies on the formation of ommochrome pigment granules are very few, despite their
generalized occurrence as screening pigments in insect eyes. This is particularly true for …

Plants are the foundation of the food web and therefore interact directly and indirectly with
myriad organisms at higher trophic levels. They directly provide nourishment to mutualistic …