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Protective coloration   /prətˈɛktɪv kˌələrˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Protective coloration

noun
1.
Coloration making an organism less visible or attractive to predators.





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"Protective coloration" Quotes from Famous Books



... out protective coloration, defensive odors, and things like that. Actually, those are most important from our point of view, for Black Eyes' ability is a further ramification of that sort of thing. Your pet is not fast. It isn't strong. It can't change color and it has no offensive odor to chase off predatory enemies. It ...
— Black Eyes and the Daily Grind • Milton Lesser
... the rocks among which they lived, and so closely did their color blend with their environment it was impossible to distinguish bird from rock so long as the fowl remained still. It was because they depended so utterly upon their protective coloration, making no effort to get out of the way but acting with utmost stupidity, that they came to be ...
— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills


Words linked to "Protective coloration" :   colouration, coloration, warning coloration, cryptic coloration, apatetic coloration, aposematic coloration, zoology, zoological science


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