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Avoiding attack : the evolutionary ecology of crypsis, aposematism, and mimicry / Graeme D. Ruxton, William L. Allen, Thomas N. Sherratt, Michael P. Speed.
LIBRA QL759 .R88 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruxton, Graeme D., author.
- Allen, William L., 1939- author.
- Sherratt, Thomas N., author.
- Speed, Michael Patrick, author.
- Series:
- Oxford biology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal defenses.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 278 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Chapter summary ; The sequence of a predator-prey encounter and investment across multiple defences
- 1. Background matching
- 2. Disruptive camouflage
- 3. Countershading
- 4. Transparency
- 5. Secondary defences
- 6. Aposematism
- 7. The evolution and maintenance of Müllerian mimicry
- 8. Advertising elusiveness
- 9. Batesian mimicry and masquerade
- 10. Startling predators
- 11. Deflecting the point of attack
- 12. Dazzle camouflage
- 13. Thanatosis
- Synthesis.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199688678
- 0199688672
- 9780199688685
- 0199688680
- OCLC:
- 1053864412
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