Camouflaging in a complex environment--octopuses use specific features of their surroundings for background matching.

Living under intense predation pressure, octopuses evolved an effective and impressive camouflaging ability that exploits features of their surroundings to enable them to "blend in." To achieve such background matching, an animal may use general resemblance and reproduce characteristics of...

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Main Authors: Noam Josef, Piero Amodio, Graziano Fiorito, Nadav Shashar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3359305?pdf=render