10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROCRYPTIC»
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procryptic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
procryptic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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forest, steppe & tundra studies in animal evironment
I. Resemblance for defence to some part of the environment (usually inanimate)
or Procryptic Coloration. II. Conspicuous colours which give warning of
unpalatability or Aposematic Coloration. III. The possession in common of
warning colours ...
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Essays on Evolution 1889-1907
PROCRYPTIC RESEMBLANCE, X. 2977312. See pp. 293, 294 for the various
sections and sub-sections. PROCRYPTIC DEFENCE, POLYMORPHISM AND
DIMORPHISM IN, X. 310. PROCRYPTIC DEFENCE, SEASONAL DIMORPHISM
IN, ...
Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton,
1908
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Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London
Apart from the many well-known examples of mimetic resemblance and
procryptic coloration furnished by the African Lycaenidae, one interesting fact
may be mentioned here. " It has been recorded by Farquharson and others that
some ...
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The Word Lover's Delight: Awesome Adjectives, Nifty Nouns, ...
proh-KLIV-ih-tee—a natural or habitual leaning or tendency It was his proclivity to
drink two cups of coffee each morning. procryptic (adj.) proh-KRIP -tik—being a
pattern that conceals, often from predators The stick insect and leaf frog are both
...
From the Editors of the Captivate Network,
2009
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A Dictionary of Entomology
Descriptive of a pattern or coloration that imparts camouflage. See Crypsis. Cf.
Anticryptic. Noun. Procrypticness. Adv. Procryptically. PROCRYPTIC
COLORATION Combinations of colours or patterns of colour on body or
appendage that serve ...
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The Animal in Its World, Explorations of an Ethologist, ...
Finally, it seems not impossible that the difference in the nuptial colours of the
males has something to do with the different need for procryptic coloration. Both
species are usually camouflaged, showing general colour resemblance with the
...
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A naturalist in East Africa: being notes made in Uganda, ...
Three procryptic species were eaten readily, and also a third whose coloration I
could not classify. This was a small species, light grey and yellow, and might
easily be developed into a mimic of some small Hymenopterous insect, but did
not ...
Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter,
1925
PP " Typically procryptic insects, concealed by their extreme degree of
resemblance to the colours, and often shape, of their immediate surroundings.
Attitude often plays an important part in increasing the resemblance." It will be
obvious that ...
Procryptic Coloration In nearly all species the adults possess a very evident
procryptic type coloration which lends to the subfamily a brown, somber, "sparrow
-like" mien, which has contributed to our poor knowledge of the taxon. Nymphs ...
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The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
at rest or crawling, and are only accidentally expanded. They do have a
procryptic value, and help the animal in making it less conspicuous against the
background when expanded, but they are not an adaptation to that end. On the
other hand, ...