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Linking Movement and Animal Vision to Uncover Functions of Dynamic Colours

Grant number: 108904 | Funding period: 2024 - 2027

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Prey movement, size, and glossiness interact to impact praying mantid attack behaviors

Y Wang, D Stuart-Fox, P Henríquez-Piskulich, AM Franklin

2025-09-01

When moving, animals are vulnerable to predation because movement can rapidly attract the attention of a predator. To reduce the r..

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Infrared camouflage in leaf-sitting frogs: A cautionary tale on adaptive convergence

D Stuart-Fox, KJ Rankin, M Shah Scott, LY Wang, AM Franklin

2025-04-01

Many cryptic green animals match leaves in invisible near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths. This observation is an enduring puzzle becau..

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Glossiness disrupts predator localisation of moving prey

Amanda M Franklin, Molly R Brown, Nikolas J Willmott

2024-11-18

Movement is the "enemy of camouflage", but most animals must move to find resources, such as mates, food and shelter. Therefore, s..

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