adaptive coloration造句
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- Hugh Cott was an exception, being an expert in animal camouflage with his then recently published textbook, " Adaptive Coloration in Animals " ( 1940 ), a book that had the distinction of being popularly carried for practical advice by army officers.
- As a natural history narrative on what has become an intensely researched experimental subject, " Adaptive Coloration " could be thought obsolete, but instead, Peter Forbes observes " But Cott's book is still valuable today for its enormous range, for its passionate exposition of the theories of mimicry and camouflage ".
- Hugh Bamford Cott in his 1940 book " Adaptive Coloration in Animals " described many instances of countershading, following Thayer in general approach but criticising Thayer's excessive claim ( " He says'All patterns and colors whatsoever of all animals that ever prey or are preyed upon are under certain normal circumstances obliterative .'" ) that effectively all animals are camouflaged with countershading.
- In his Introduction to Hugh Bamford Cott's 1940 book " Adaptive Coloration in Animals ", Julian Huxley praised Cott's work as " a worthy successor to Sir Edward Poulton's " The Colours of Animals " . . . The one was a pioneer study, the other is in many respects the last word on the subject " ".
- The English zoologist Hugh Cott, in his 1940 book " Adaptive Coloration in Animals ", wrote that some caterpillars such as the eyed hawk-moth " Smerinthus ocellatus ", and tree frogs such as the red-snouted treefrog " Hyla coerulea ", are coloured so as to blend with their backgrounds whether observed in visible light or in infra-red.
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- The English zoologist Hugh Cott's 1940 book " Adaptive Coloration in Animals " corrected Thayer's errors, sometimes sharply : " Thus we find Thayer straining the theory to a fantastic extreme in an endeavour to make it cover almost every type of coloration in the animal kingdom . " Cott built on Thayer's discoveries, developing a comprehensive view of camouflage based on " maximum disruptive contrast ", countershading and hundreds of examples.
- In addition to " Adaptive Coloration in Animals ", Cott wrote two essays on camouflage : Camouflage in nature and in war in the " Royal Engineers Journal " ( December 1938 ), pp501 517; and Animal form in relation to appearance in Lancelot Law Whyte, ed . " Aspects of form : a symposium on form in nature and art " ( London : Percy Lund Humphries, 1951 ).
- The final chapter confirms that " The force of the facts and arguments used in this work is cumulative in effect . " Many small steps of reasoning combine to show that " adaptive coloration . . . has been . . . one of the main achievements of organic evolution . " The book ends by comparing human artefacts and " natural adaptations ", both of which can have goals ( recall the publication date of 1940, early in the Second World War ) including " the frustration of a predatory animal or of an aggressive Power ".
- Hubbs observes that Cott is both an artist and a naturalist as well as a scientist : " In section after section, rivaling one another in fascination, this master of art and of natural history unfolds the biological significance of adaptive coloration in animals . " And Cott's emphasis on disruptive patterning and ( following Thayer ) countershading clearly affected the reviewer : " Particularly impressive is the author's treatment of " coincident disruptive coloration ", in which a ruptive mark crosses structural boundaries, so as to obliterate visually such ordinarily conspicuous parts as the eye and the limbs.
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