animal coloration

The study of animal coloration was a particularly active area.

His decision to write an accessible book on animal coloration falls into this pattern.

Animal coloration has been a topic of interest and research in biology for centuries.

Camouflage is not the only form of Animal coloration that helps animals to survive.

Poulton is also remembered for his pioneering work on animal coloration.

This pattern of animal coloration is found in animals like the skunk with strong defences.

Arguments for and against these aspects of animal coloration are intensively discussed in the book.

The book begins with a brief account of the physical causes of animal coloration.

It was the first substantial textbook to argue the case for Darwinian selection applying to all aspects of animal coloration.

When used to describe natural animal coloration, "red" usually refers to a brownish, reddish-brown or ginger color.

Animal coloration is the general appearance of an animal resulting from the reflection or emission of light from its surfaces.

Animal coloration may be the result of any combination of pigments, chromatophores, structural coloration and bioluminescence.

The English zoologist Edward Bagnall Poulton studied animal coloration, especially camouflage.

The book, illustrated artistically by Abbott Thayer, sets out the controversial thesis that all animal coloration has the evolutionary purpose of camouflage.

The book was criticised by big game hunter and politician Theodore Roosevelt for its central assertion that every aspect of animal coloration is effective as camouflage.

The German zoologist Theodor Eimer (1843-98) attacked Poulton's approach to animal coloration.

Beddard's Animal Coloration is cited and discussed both by historians of science, and by practising scientists from a number of different fields.

Countershading was first described by the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer, a pioneer in the theory of animal coloration.

The Neo-Lamarckian Cope criticised Poulton's support for Darwin but liked the book's many observations of animal coloration.

Countershading is the pattern of animal coloration in which an animal's pigmentation is darker on the upper side and lighter on the underside of the body.

One of the pioneers of research into animal coloration, Edward Bagnall Poulton classified the forms of protective coloration, in a way which is still helpful.

For example, the book illuminates the progress of Darwinism, camouflage research, sexual selection, mimicry and the debate on the purpose of animal coloration triggered by Abbott Thayer.

In his The Colours of Animals (1890), Edward Bagnall Poulton classified protective animal coloration into types such as warning colours and protective mimicry.

The unbalanced treatment of animal coloration in Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom encapsulates Thayer's partial understanding and his rejection of other theories.

The review ends with a brief discussion of Poulton's table classifying animal coloration, predicting (correctly) that the "Greek derivatives" such as pseudaposematic and pseudepisematic will not be generally adopted.