Structural and colored disruption as camouflage strategies in two sympatric Asian box turtle species (Cuora spp.)

Disruptive coloration is a common camouflage strategy that breaks body outlines and ostensibly blends organisms into complex backgrounds. However, contrasting false edges caused by an animal's structure can also break body outlines, although there is no empirical evidence to support this strate...

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Main Authors: Rongping Bu, Fanrong Xiao, P. George Lovell, Zihao Ye, Haitao Shi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989420309021