Habitat geometry rather than visual acuity limits the visibility of a ground‐nesting bird's clutch to terrestrial predators

GRA Hancock, L Grayshon, R Burrell… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The nests of ground‐nesting birds rely heavily on camouflage for their survival, and
predation risk, often linked to ecological changes from human activity, is a major source of …

[HTML][HTML] Recording animal-view videos of the natural world using a novel camera system and software package

V Vasas, MC Lowell, J Villa, QD Jamison… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Plants, animals, and fungi display a rich tapestry of colors. Animals, in particular, use colors
in dynamic displays performed in spatially complex environments. Although current …

Geographic variation in individual face learning based on plasticity rather than local genetic adaptation in Polistes wasps

M Simons, DA Green, EA Tibbetts - Behavioral Ecology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Signals and receiver responses often vary across a species' geographic range. Effective
communication requires a match between signal and receiver response, so there is much …

Coevolution of Camouflage

C Reynolds - Artificial Life Conference Proceedings 35, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Camouflage in nature seems to arise from competition between predator and prey. To
survive, predators must find prey, and prey must avoid being found. This work simulates an …

Recording animal-view videos of the natural world

V Vasas, MC Lowell, J Villa, QD Jamison, AG Siegle… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Plants, animals, and fungi display a rich tapestry of colors. Animals, in particular, use colors
in dynamic displays performed in spatially complex environments. In such natural settings …