In a rainforest, small animals survive by hiding. By blending in with their environment until danger passes, many unique ...

Most animals have a defense mechanism, and it’s nature’s way of encouraging the species’ survival. Some include physical abilities like a squid’s blinding ink or a lizard’s detachable appendages. For ...

Researchers recently solved the enigma of how the strategy of some toxic species that use colored signals to warn predators came about. Common in Europe, the color of the spotted salamander acts as a ...

image: Some toxic animals are bright to warn predators from attacking them, and some hide the warning colors, showing them only at the very last moment when they are about to be attacked. A new ...

Animal communication takes many forms. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. It can include sounds and bioacoustics, as well as smells and pheromones. But other signals, ...

New findings help answer a particularly vexing evolutionary question: how do species that use bright coloration to keep predators away survive long enough for this warning signal coloration to evolve, ...

If most people came upon a striped skunk, they would know to give the animal space or risk winding up with a face full of stink. After all, the idea that these North American mammals are noxious can ...

Why are some animals, for example, frogs, snakes and butterflies, brightly coloured for self defence, and in this context what is aposematism? Mechanisms for defence against predators takes many forms ...

Also known as warning colouration, this refers to how animals change colour or adapt physically to counter threats from various predators. Such features warn predators to refrain from attacking an ...

NZP copy purchased with funds from the SIL Wildlife Conservation Endowment. Introduction. Chapter summary ; The sequence of a predator-prey encounter and investment across multiple defences -- 1.