Beyond Camouflage: How Animal Colour Serves as Warning, Signalling, and Thermoregulation Tool
When Bright Colour Means "Back Off"The poison dart frog of Central and South America carries enough batrachotoxin in its skin to kill a small predator. It is also electric blue, vivid orange, or lime green, depending on the species. This is aposematism: colouration that functions as an active broadcast of…
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