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Positioning behavior according to individual color variation improves camouflage in novel habitats

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  • Adrián Baños-Villalba
  • David P Quevedo
  • Pim Edelaar
  • John SkelhornHandling editor

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Understanding how organisms interact with their environment is a key issue, especially in the current context of global change. We find that ground-perching grasshoppers colonizing urban pavements modify their camouflage and escape strategies depending on how well their body coloration resembles the pavement. A virtual predation experiment confirms that this adaptive behavioral flexibility allows individuals to reduce predation in their new environment.

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  • Adrián Baños-Villalba & David P Quevedo & Pim Edelaar & John SkelhornHandling editor, 2018. "Positioning behavior according to individual color variation improves camouflage in novel habitats," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 29(2), pages 404-410.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:beheco:v:29:y:2018:i:2:p:404-410.
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