Color signals which mediate behavioral interactions across taxa and contexts are often
thought of as color'patches'–parts of an animal that appear colorful compared to other parts …

To understand the function of colour signals in nature, we require robust quantitative
analytical frameworks to enable us to estimate how animal and plant colour patterns appear …

The origins of preferences that drive the evolution of arbitrary sexual signals have been hotly
debated for more than 150 years. An emerging but little-tested theory, efficient coding theory …

Coral reef fishes are diverse in ecology and behaviour and show remarkable colour
variability. Investigating the visual pigment gene (opsin) expression in these fishes makes it …

How animals assess information encoded in individual color patches have been extensively
studied, yet the role of both individual color patches and gross color pattern (ie, the …

Male guppies (Poecilia reticulata) have multiple colored spots and perform courtship
displays near the edges of streams in Trinidad in shallow water flowing through rainforest …

Aposematic signals visually advertise underlying anti-predatory defences in many species.
They should be detectable (eg contrasting against the background) and bold (eg using …

Edge detection is important for object detection and recognition. However, we do not know
whether edge statistics accurately predict the detection of prey by potential predators. This is …

The selective factors that shape phenotypic diversity in prey communities with aposematic
animals are diverse and coincide with similar diversity in the strength of underlying …

According to Weber's law of proportional processing, perceptual discrimination between
stimuli of different magnitudes is based on their proportional differences in magnitude (not …