Reference: “Protective coloration of European vipers throughout the predation sequence” by Janne K.Valkonen, Annu Vakkila, Susanna Pesari, Laura Tuominen and Johanna Mappes, 11 May 2020, Animal ...

Protective coloration is one of the simplest but most effective tools that prey species use to evade predators. Typically, different color patterns are useful at different stages of a predation event.

Letter Published: 24 November 1956 Protective Coloration and Animal Behaviour A. D. BLEST Nature 178, 1190–1191 (1956) Cite this article ...

We scored pelage coloration of pigs and peccaries and matched them to socioecological variables to assess the relative strengths of protective coloration and signaling in driving coat coloration.