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Barnett JB, Cuthill IC, Scott-Samuel NE. Distance-dependent aposematism and camouflage in the cinnabar moth caterpillar (. R Soc Open Sci. 2018;5(2):171396doi: 10.1098/rsos.171396.
Barnett, J. B., Cuthill, I. C., & Scott-Samuel, N. E. (2018). Distance-dependent aposematism and camouflage in the cinnabar moth caterpillar (. Royal Society open science, 5(2), 171396. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171396
Barnett, James B, et al. "Distance-dependent aposematism and camouflage in the cinnabar moth caterpillar (." Royal Society open science vol. 5,2 (2018): 171396. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171396
Barnett JB, Cuthill IC, Scott-Samuel NE. Distance-dependent aposematism and camouflage in the cinnabar moth caterpillar (. R Soc Open Sci. 2018 Feb 21;5(2):171396. doi: 10.1098/rsos.171396. eCollection 2018 Feb. PMID: 29515858; PMCID: PMC5830747.
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R Soc Open Sci. 2018 Feb 21;5(2):171396. doi: 10.1098/rsos.171396. eCollection 2018 Feb.

Distance-dependent aposematism and camouflage in the cinnabar moth caterpillar (.

Royal Society open science

James B Barnett, Innes C Cuthill, Nicholas E Scott-Samuel

Affiliations

  1. School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK.
  2. School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, 12a Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TU, UK.

PMID: 29515858 PMCID: PMC5830747 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171396

Abstract

Defended prey often use distinctive, conspicuous, colours to advertise their unprofitability to potential predators (aposematism). These warning signals are frequently made up of salient, high contrast, stripes which have been hypothesized to increase the speed and accuracy of predator avoidance learning. Limitations in predator visual acuity, however, mean that these patterns cannot be resolved when viewed from a distance, and adjacent patches of colour will blend together (pattern blending). We investigated how saliency changes at different viewing distances in the toxic and brightly coloured cinnabar moth caterpillar (

Keywords: background matching; defensive coloration; salience; viewing distance; visual acuity; warning coloration

Conflict of interest statement

We declare we have no competing interests.

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