• 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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