Avoiding Attack: The Evolutionary Ecology of Crypsis, Warning Signals and Mimicry

by Thomas N. Sherratt, Graeme D. Ruxton, Michael P. Speed

Book Overview

This book discusses the diversity of mechanisms by which prey avoid attack by predators and questions how such defensive mechanisms have evolved through natural selection. It considers how potential prey avoid detection, how they make themselves unprofitable to attack, how they signal their unprofitability, and how other species have exploited these signals. Using carefully selected examples drawn from a wide range of species and ecosystems, the authors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198528604
• ISBN13: 9780198528609
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.6" x 7.4"