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Attitude and Concealing Coloration

Nature volume 140, page 684 (1937)Cite this article

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I FOLLOWED with much interest and amusement a controversy in NATURE concerning the origin of species, which involved the meaning of protective coloration in insects. One correspondent asserted that insects placed themselves in special locations with which their concealment devices blended. I am submitting a further example of this.

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CORNES, J. Attitude and Concealing Coloration. Nature 140, 684 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140684a0

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