Exploring the Unseen: The Adaptive Significance of Animal-Visible and Infrared Colour Change

The extent of rapid colour change in male agamid lizards is unrelated to overall sexual dichromatism

A Batabyal, A Zambre, T Mclaren, KJ Rankin, R Somaweera, D Stuart-Fox, M Thaker

2023-07-01

Dynamic colour change is widespread in ectothermic animals, but has primarily been studied in the context of background matching. ..

Rapid beard darkening predicts contest outcome, not copulation success, in bearded dragon lizards

Ashton L Dickerson, Katrina J Rankin, Viviana Cadena, John A Endler, Devi Stuart-Fox

2020-12-01

Rapid colour change is widespread in animals and allows them to respond dynamically to the physical and social environment. Howeve..

Reflection of near-infrared light confers thermal protection in birds

I Medina, E Newton, MR Kearney, RA Mulder, WP Porter, D Stuart-Fox

2018-12-01

Biologists have focused their attention on the optical functions of light reflected at ultraviolet and human-visible wavelengths. ..

The microstructure of white feathers predicts their visible and near-infrared reflectance properties

D Stuart-Fox, E Newton, RA Mulder, L D’Alba, MD Shawkey, B Igic

2018-07-01

Research on the optical properties of animal integuments, including fur, feather, skin and cuticle, has focussed almost exclusivel..

Temperature-induced colour change varies seasonally in bearded dragon lizards

V Cadena, K Rankin, KR Smith, JA Endler, D Stuart-Fox

2018-02-01

The benefits of colour change are expected to vary seasonally because of changes in reproductive activity, temperature and, potent..

Geographic divergence and colour change in response to visual backgrounds and illumination intensity in bearded dragons

Viviana Cadena, Kathleen R Smith, John A Endler, Devi Stuart-Fox

2017-03-15

Animals may improve camouflage by both dynamic colour change and local evolutionary adaptation of colour but we have little unders..

Color change for thermoregulation versus camouflage in free-ranging lizards

KR Smith, V Cadena, JA Endler, MR Kearney, WP Porter, D Stuart-Fox

2016-12-01

Animal coloration has multiple functions including thermoregulation,camouflage,and social signaling,and the requirements of each f..

Colour change on different body regions provides thermal and signalling advantages in bearded dragon lizards

KR Smith, V Cadena, JA Endler, WP Porter, MR Kearney, D Stuart-Fox

2016-06-15

Many terrestrial ectotherms are capable of rapid colour change, yet it is unclear how these animals accommodate the multiple funct..

Cyclic colour change in the bearded dragon Pogona vitticeps under different photoperiods

M Fan, D Stuart-Fox, V Cadena

2014-10-29

The ability to change colour rapidly is widespread among ectotherms and has various functions including camouflage, communication ..