Disruptive coloration (also known as disruptive camouflage or disruptive patterning) is a form of camouflage that works by breaking up the outlines of...

Coincident disruptive coloration or coincident disruptive patterns are patterns of disruptive coloration in animals that go beyond the usual camouflage...

through a general resemblance to the background, high contrast disruptive coloration, eliminating shadow, and countershading. In the open ocean, where...

through disruptive camouflage." Cott explained, while discussing "a little frog known as Megalixalus fornasinii" in his chapter on coincident disruptive coloration...

Camouflage can be achieved by a wide variety of methods, from disruptive coloration to transparency and some forms of mimicry, even in habitats like...

methods of camouflage, which are colour resemblance, countershading, disruptive coloration, and shadow elimination. The effectiveness of these, arguments for...

Duck Hunter, is a battledress camouflage pattern with mottle and disruptive coloration to blend into the environment similar to a frog's crypsis skin....

major forms of camouflage in fish include protective resemblance, disruptive coloration, countershading, mirror-siding, and transparency. Protective resemblance...

based on countershading and disruptive coloration, which he had published in the controversial 1909 book Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom. Seeing...

The caterpillars' coloration, particularly the saddle pattern, is also thought to be disruptive coloration. This means the coloration makes it harder for...

defense mechanisms that have been confirmed: mantle spicules and disruptive coloration. Unlike most dorid species, Peltodoris do not utilize chemical defense...

focussed especially on "maximum disruptive contrast", the kind of patterning used in military camouflage such as disruptive pattern material. Indeed, Cott...

camouflage in the right light. The book introduced the concepts of disruptive coloration to break up an object's outlines, of masquerade, as when a butterfly...

concealment will be effected. Cott described disruptive eye masks as a special case of a coincident disruptive pattern, one that provides camouflage by joining...

The dominant camouflage methods on land are countershading and disruptive coloration, supported by less frequent usage of many other methods. The dominant...

The snake's conspicuous tail contrasts with the rest of its body, which is well-camouflaged with disruptive coloration...

military camouflage, begun by the painter Abbot Thayer who advocated disruptive coloration and countershading and continued in the First World War by the zoologist...

g. by resembling light-colored objects in the environment) and disruptive coloration (by making the body appear to be composed of high-contrasting patches)...

animal was countershaded, with stripes and spots on the limbs for disruptive coloration. This is similar to that of many modern species of forest-dwelling...

mottled red-brown, white, black, and grey cryptic plumage. This disruptive coloration allows the potoo to camouflage into branches. The sexes appear similar...

alongside other forms of camouflage including colour matching and disruptive coloration. Among predatory fish, the gray snapper, Lutianus griseus, is effectively...

elaborate projections and spines which are combined with complex disruptive coloration. These have the effect of destroying the signature "fish" outline...

so as to merge with their most common backgrounds, and some have disruptive coloration, stripes and blotches that break up their outlines. In a few species...

Coloration Albinism Animal coloration Aposematism Camouflage Chromatophore Counter-illumination Countershading Crypsis Deimatic behaviour Disruptive coloration...

general background colour. The Wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) uses disruptive coloration including black eye markings similar to voids between leaves, bands...

helped to influence War Office policy on camouflage. His book Adaptive Coloration in Animals (1940), popular among serving soldiers, was the major textbook...

Thayer in 1909, but the mechanism was for a century confused with disruptive coloration, another mechanism for delaying recognition that also relies on...

Coloration Albinism Animal coloration Aposematism Camouflage Chromatophore Counter-illumination Countershading Crypsis Deimatic behaviour Disruptive coloration...

have found that when viewed from a distance, the panda displays disruptive coloration, while up close, they rely more on blending in. The black ears may...

many different ways, such as through resemblance to surroundings, disruptive coloration, shadow elimination by countershading or counter-illumination, self-decoration...