• Adaptive Coloration in Animals is a 500-page textbook about camouflage, warning coloration and mimicry by the Cambridge zoologist Hugh Cott, first published...
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    common sense thereto." Hugh Bamford Cott's 500-page book Adaptive Coloration in Animals, published in wartime 1940, systematically described the principles...
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    of almost all the bolder patterns in animals' costumes. — Thayer Hugh Cott's 1940 book Adaptive Coloration in Animals introduced ideas such as "maximum...
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  • camouflage. His book Adaptive Coloration in Animals (1940), popular among serving soldiers, was the major textbook on camouflage in zoology of the twentieth...
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    Poulton) could readily see were adaptive features. Bowler added that "The fact that the adaptive significance of coloration was (sic) widely challenged indicates...
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    Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise Through Color and Pattern; Being a Summary of Abbott H. Thayer's Discoveries...
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    the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising...
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    History of Animals (Greek: Τῶν περὶ τὰ ζῷα ἱστοριῶν, Ton peri ta zoia historion, "Inquiries on Animals"; Latin: Historia Animalium, "History of Animals") is...
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    Books. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-4733-7510-9. Cott, Hugh B. (1940). Adaptive Coloration in Animals. Methuen. pp. 22–23. Tickell, W. L. N. (March 2003). "White...
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    Hugh Bamford Cott in his 1940 book Adaptive Coloration in Animals described many instances of countershading, following Thayer in general approach but...
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    Hymenopus coronatus (category Insects described in 1792)
    Hugh Bamford (1940). Adaptive Coloration in Animals. London: Methuen. Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1890). The Colours of Animals: Their Meaning and Use...
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    visible spectrum. The English zoologist Hugh Cott, in his 1940 book Adaptive Coloration in Animals, wrote that some caterpillars such as the eyed hawk-moth...
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    Hugh Bamford (1940). Adaptive Coloration in Animals. London: Methuen. pp. 358–360. Bates, Mary. "Natural Bling: 6 Amazing Animals That Decorate Themselves"...
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    aposematism, Adaptive Coloration in Animals. By the 21st century, adaptation to life in cities had markedly reduced the antipredator responses of animals such...
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    Cicada (category Insects in culture)
    Cott, Hugh B. (1940). Adaptive Coloration in Animals. Methuen. pp. 375–376. Cott, Hugh B. (1940). Adaptive Coloration in Animals. Methuen. p. 203. Zuk...
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    Hugh B (1940). Adaptive Coloration in Animals. Methuen. page 191 Slater, Peter J. B. (1999). "8.5 Advertising displays". Essentials of Animal Behaviour. Cambridge...
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    this contrasts against the foliage in the background that appears red. In his 1940 book Adaptive Coloration in Animals, Hugh Cott quotes an account by Nelson...
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    crabs. In his Adaptive Coloration in Animals (1940), Hugh Bamford Cott describes self decoration under the heading "adventitious concealing coloration", also...
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  • compendious zoology tract ever to be packed in a soldier's kitbag", his 1940 Adaptive Coloration in Animals. Forbes tells how the book got Cott the job...
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  • People for animals. Archived from the original on August 5, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2013. Cott, Hugh Bamford (1940). Adaptive Coloration in Animals. Oxford...
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  • in the chapter on coincident disruptive coloration in his 1940 book Adaptive Coloration in Animals, that It is only when the pattern is considered in...
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    Aphonopelma anax (category Spiders described in 1940)
    Dermatologica Sinica. September 2007, S. 232-237 Cott, Hugh B. (1940). Adaptive Coloration in Animals. London: Methuen. p. 215 Fabre, Jean-Henri; Translated by Alexander...
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    The Life of Birds. BBC ISBN 0563-38792-0 Cott, Hugh. 1940. Adaptive Coloration in Animals. Oxford University Press. pp. 352–353. See Hugh Cott for his...
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    colours" in an article about animal coloration in 1877. In 1890 Edward Bagnall Poulton renamed the concept aposematism in his book The Colours of Animals. He...
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    Structural coloration in animals, and a few plants, is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible...
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    seadragon". FishBase. Retrieved 8 November 2022. Cott, Hugh (1940). Adaptive Coloration in Animals. Oxford University Press. pp. 341–342. OCLC 5232000. (Lourie...
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    silk onto its bristles to keep the camouflage in place. Cott, Hugh (1940). Adaptive Coloration in Animals. Oxford University Press. pp. 359–360. Ford,...
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    Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 3 (1): 21–23. doi:10.1016/0169-5347(88)90079-1. PMID 21227055. Cott, H. B. (1940). Adaptive Coloration in Animals. London:...
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    Eurasian bittern (category Birds described in 1758)
    obliterated' by countershading or coloration pattern or anything else." Cott, Hugh (1940). Adaptive Coloration in Animals. Oxford University Press. p. 137...
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    October 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2019. Cott, Hugh B. (1940). Adaptive Coloration in Animals. Methuen. OCLC 222479116. Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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