Camouflage

... rats will slowly become different from the originals through mutation, for example one rat may have mutated and gain spots which help it to camouflage better and have a lower chance of being taken by eagles, so the spotted rats would become more common. Through mutations like these the rats ...

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Good to shy away from Wikipedia as a primary source... http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0060025&ct=1 http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/science/zoology/chordates/reptiles/squamata/sauria/chameleons.htm http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chameleon and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camouflage

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Greetings, I am a Biology major and I have been pondering a lot of things lately, and the mechanism that allows chameleon to camouflage is one of them. Does anyone know of any papers written on this topic? I have looked on the internet and couldn't find much. Looks like this is a topic ...

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... males and don't drink blood (and thus don't usually enter houses). 2. Male's lives are much shorter than female's lives. 3. They're green and camouflage very well. This theory about green males obviously isn't true about all mosquito species. The females are black. Here are some pictures: ...

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