Adaptive Coloration in Animals is a 500-page textbook about camouflage, warning coloration and mimicry by the Cambridge zoologist Hugh Cott, first published during the Second World War in 1940; the bo
Cover of first edition
Cott's diagrammatic explanation of "the principle of maximum disruptive contrast, and showing the distractive effect upon the eye of patterns which contrast as violently as possible with the tone of their background"
Cott's accurate drawing of the potoo, disruptively coloured and perched to resemble a broken branch
Cott's art in the service of zoology: the four-eye butterfly fish, Chaetodon capistratus, showing two adaptations at once: concealment of the eye, and distraction with an eyespot. Fig. 76 from Adaptive Coloration in Animals
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Animal Coloration, or in full Animal Coloration: An Account of the Principal Facts and Theories Relating to the Colours and Markings of Animals, is a book by the English zoologist Frank Evers Beddard,
Adaptive Coloration in Animals
…The Colours of Animals (E. B. Poulton, 1890) Animal Coloration (F. E. Beddard, 1892) Behrens, Roy R. (2009). Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage. Bobolink Books. ISBN…
Cover of first edition
Title page of first edition, 1892
Plate II, "Kallima butterfly". (How many insects are in the image?)
Plate I, A group of protectively coloured animals