Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Animal_coloration> ?p ?o }
- Animal_coloration abstract "Animal coloration is the general appearance of an animal resulting from the reflection or emission of light from its surfaces. Some animals are brightly coloured, while others are hard to see. In some species, such as the peacock, the male has strong patterns, conspicuous colours and is iridescent, while the female is far less visible.There are several separate reasons why animals have evolved colours. Camouflage enables an animal to remain hidden from view. Signalling enables an animal to communicate information such as warning of its ability to defend itself (aposematism). Animals also use colour in advertising, signalling services such as cleaning to animals of other species; to signal sexual status to other members of the same species; and in mimicry, taking advantage of another species' warning coloration. Some animals use colour to divert attacks by startle (deimatic behaviour), surprising a predator e.g. with eyespots or other flashes of colour, and possibly by motion dazzle, confusing a predator's attack by moving a bold pattern (such as zebra stripes) rapidly. Some animals are coloured for physical protection, such as having pigments in the skin to protect against sunburn, while some frogs can lighten or darken their skin for temperature regulation. Finally, animals can be coloured incidentally. For example, blood is red because the haem pigment needed to carry oxygen is red. Animals coloured in these ways can have striking natural patterns.Animals produce colour in different ways. Pigments are particles of coloured material. Chromatophores are cells containing pigment, which can change their size to make their colour more or less visible. Some animals, including many butterflies and birds, have microscopic structures in scales, bristles or feathers which give them brilliant iridescent colours. Other animals including squid and some deep-sea fish can produce light, sometimes of different colours. Animals often use two or more of these mechanisms together to produce the colours and effects they need.".
- Animal_coloration thumbnail Orientalischer_Süßlippfisch.jpg?width=300.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageExternalLink paletteEN.pdf.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageExternalLink animal-camouflage.htm.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageExternalLink index.html.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageExternalLink nwep2.htm.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageExternalLink Overheads.html.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageID "13455478".
- Animal_coloration wikiPageLength "42739".
- Animal_coloration wikiPageOutDegree "225".
- Animal_coloration wikiPageRevisionID "699018994".
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Abbott_Handerson_Thayer.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Adaptive_Coloration_in_Animals.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Aggressive_mimicry.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Albinism.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Albinism_in_biology.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Alfred_Russel_Wallace.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink American_goldfinch.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Amphibian.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Anglerfish.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Animal_Coloration_(book).
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Aposematism.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Arctic_fox.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Argus_(bird).
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Aristotle.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Batesian_mimicry.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Bee.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Beetle.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Biological_pigment.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Biology.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Bioluminescence.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Bird.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Bird-of-paradise.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Black_grouse.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Blue-and-yellow_macaw.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Bokermannohyla_alvarengai.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Butterfly.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Caddisfly.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Camouflage.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Cardinal_(bird).
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Carotenoid.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Category:Animals_that_can_change_color.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Category:Evolution_of_animals.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mimicry.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Category:Warning_coloration.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Category:Zoology.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Cell_(biology).
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Cephalopod.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Chameleon.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Darwin.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Chlorophyll.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Chromatophore.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Cinnabar_moth.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Cleaning_symbiosis.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Color.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Common_starling.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Concealing-Coloration_in_the_Animal_Kingdom.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Coral_snake.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Counter-illumination.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Countershading.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Crypsis.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Ctenophora.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Cuttlefish.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Deception_in_animals.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Decorator_crab.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Deimatic_behaviour.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Diffraction_grating.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Digitalis.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Disruptive_Pattern_Material.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Duck.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_newt.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Bagnall_Poulton.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Enzyme.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Evolution.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Eye.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink File:Brazilian_Skunk_from_Edward_Bagnall_Poulton_Colours_of_Animals_1890.jpg.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink File:Peacock_feathers_closeup.jpg.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink File:Roseate_Spoonbills_1905-1909_Abbott_H_Thayer.jpg.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Firefly.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Flamingo.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Flower_mantis.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Frank_Evers_Beddard.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Frequency-dependent_selection.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Fritz_Müller.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Fur.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Glowworm.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Great_tit.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Hawksbill_sea_turtle.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Heme.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Walter_Bates.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Hoverfly.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Hugh_B._Cott.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Hymenoptera.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Instinct.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Iridescence.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Leopard.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Light.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Lion.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Lizard.
- Animal_coloration wikiPageWikiLink Longfin_inshore_squid.