BIOL 1902 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Papilio Cresphontes, Leopard Frog, Gray Tree Frog
9 May 2015
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Component 1: staying alive cont"d: defences cont"d, appearances cont"d, camouflage cont"d. If your background matching (resembling environment) must be still as well for it to work (cryptic behavior) If you have you have a type of moth and a type of tree in a forest, some of which are dark and some of which are light. If for example all the trees turn dark then the light moths won"t be able to camouflage and eventually you"ll be left with just dark moths. Disruptive patterns break up the shape of an animal, making the animal hard to see and not look like one object if it doesn"t move: ex. Killdeer"s breast band and canada goose"s chip patch, loon"s. Coincident disruptive coloration discrete areas of color match up when that body part is folded up: ex. Spots on leopard frog when legs are folded up. Animals can use body shape as a form of camouflage: ex.
