Sentences with phrase «colors from the predator»

Not exact matches

AIDS is an equal opportunity killer from predator to host no matter what the color, age, race or religion.

While Darwin observed that animals» colors and markings had often evolved from natural selection, either to conceal them from predators or to attract mates, the American painter Abbott Handerson Thayer insisted that coloration evolved only for concealment.

The phenomenon makes sense; because it's easier to learn about danger from a single warning system (the reason why traffic lights are the same colors the world over), distasteful organisms share the cost of «educating» their predators.

And by tracing the remains of pigments in fossils, called melanosomes, scientists have in recent years begun to breathe new life into the dun - colored relicts, discovering the Technicolor hues in prehistoric birds» wings and the clever shading that veiled ancient mosasaurs from predators.

Whereas camouflage from predators is still probably the single most important factor governing the evolution of dull and mottled egg colors, for the brighter colors the biophysical evidence points to the sun.

Dr Martin Stevens from the University of Exeter said: «Our results tell us that the ladybirds present «honest» signals to predators, because their color reveals how well defended they are.

Forces of natural selection nudged nonvenomous fang blennies toward colors and stripes similar enough to those of their venomous cousins to discourage attacks from an educated predator.

Octopuses have generally been viewed as solitary creatures — and their color - changing abilities primarily as a means to hide from hungry predators.

«The animals emit a remarkably effective dim glow from their bellies that exactly matches the intensity and color of sunlight penetrating from the surface,» Widder explains, «so they aren't easily seen by predators swimming below them.»

Scientists have long thought that this many - armed denizen of the deep was strictly solitary and didn't interact much with its fellows, reserving its color - shifting ability for intimidating predators — or hiding from them.

Ornithologists think birds evolved these colors to attract mates, camouflage themselves from predators, and recognize fellow members of their species in the crowded sky.

Looking at nearly 1,000 species of birds, they found that while males often have brighter feathers than females, the two sexes have come closer together in color over time to blend into their surroundings and hide from predators.

Twenty - one species of mammals and birds rely on the ability to change their coat color from brown in summer to white in winter to avoid fatal encounters with predators, but in some parts of their range individuals forgo the white molt and remain brown in winter.

Although beautiful in coloration, a ladybird is actually using what's called aposematic coloration — basically a color pattern that signals to would - be predators looking to enjoy a ladybug lunch that they're in fact toxic (a ladybug can actually «bleed» toxins from her knees when she's especially pissed off).

Much like the chameleon, the cuttlefish is also capable of changing its color and appearance to blend in with its surroundings and hide from both predator and prey.

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Like caterpillars that mimic other species in order to hide from predators, they hide behind similar color schemes, fonts, and wordings to lure you in.