Camouflaging in a Complex Environment—Octopuses Use Specific Features of Their Surroundings for Background Matching

Living under intense predation pressure, octopuses evolved an effective and impressive camouflaging ability that exploits features of their surroundings to enable them to “blend in.” To achieve such background matching, an animal may use general resemblance and reproduce characteristics of its entir...

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Autores principales: Josef, Noam, Amodio, Piero, Fiorito, Graziano, Shashar, Nadav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3359305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22649542
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037579

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3359305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22649542
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037579

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