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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...
Autores principales: | Josef, Noam, Amodio, Piero, Fiorito, Graziano, Shashar, Nadav |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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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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