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Background colour matching increases with risk of predation in a colour-changing grasshopper

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  • Pim Edelaar
  • Adrián Baños-Villalba
  • Graciela Escudero
  • Consuelo Rodríguez-Bernal

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Lay Summary Grasshoppers increase their camouflage when it matters more. Azure Sand Grasshoppers can change their colour so it matches the environment, just like chameleons, only by different means and therefore more slowly. When exposed to a greater risk of predation, they improve their colour match even more, as was known for fast colour changers. This shows that fast and slow colour changers are not that different, apart from how, and how fast, they change.

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  • Pim Edelaar & Adrián Baños-Villalba & Graciela Escudero & Consuelo Rodríguez-Bernal, 2017. "Background colour matching increases with risk of predation in a colour-changing grasshopper," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 28(3), pages 698-705.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:beheco:v:28:y:2017:i:3:p:698-705.
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    1. Juan Ramón Peralta-Rincón & Fatima Zohra Aoulad & Antonio Prado & Pim Edelaar, 2020. "Phenotype-dependent habitat choice is too weak to cause assortative mating between Drosophila melanogaster strains differing in light sensitivity," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(10), pages 1-14, October.

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