Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding
predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a complex and dynamic environment …

A comprehensive treatment of visual ecology Visual ecology is the study of how animals use
visual systems to meet their ecological needs, how these systems have evolved, and how …

Lures and other adaptations for prey attraction are particularly interesting from an
evolutionary viewpoint because they are characterized by correlational selection, involve …

The study of deceptive signalling has provided compelling insights into evolutionary and
ecological processes. Aside from mimicry, however, research into the use of colour as a …

Background Modern molecular analyses are often inconsistent with pre-cladistic taxonomic
hypotheses, frequently indicating higher richness than morphological taxonomy estimates …

Masquerading comes at various costs and benefits. The principal benefit being the
avoidance of predators. The orb-web spider Cyclosa ginnaga has a silver body and adds a …

Highlights•Animals use their bright body coloration to lure prey.•This strategy has never
been found in nocturnal cursorial predators.•We examined the prey lure function in a …

Few predators forage by both day and night. It remains unknown, however, how the costs
and benefits of foraging or signaling are partitioned in animals that forage at all times. The …

Many animals improve their foraging success by producing signals that exploit the sensory
biases of potential prey, but the specific properties that make these sensory traps effective …

The nature of interactions between animals varies depending on local selection pressure,
trophic status of the participants, and evolutionary circumstances [1–6]. Body coloration and …