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Avoiding Attack: The Evolutionary Ecology of Crypsis, Aposematism, and Mimicry.

Graeme Ruxton, William Allen Orcid Logo, Thomas Sherratt, Michael Speed

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Swansea University Author: William Allen Orcid Logo

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Avoiding Attack discusses the diversity of mechanisms by which prey avoid predator attacks and explores 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 communicate this st...

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