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Abbott Handerson Thayer
Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849May 29, 1921) was an American artist, naturalist and teacher.
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Acanthognathus poinari
Acanthognathus poinari is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae known from a single possibly Miocene fossil found on Hispaniola.
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Acanthostichus hispaniolicus
Acanthostichus hispaniolicus is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Dorylinae known from a group of possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola.
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Acropyga glaesaria
Acropyga glaesaria is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Formicinae known from a group of possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola.
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Adaptation
In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.
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Adaptive Coloration in Animals
Adaptive Coloration in Animals is a 500-page textbook about camouflage, warning coloration and mimicry by the Cambridge zoologist Hugh Cott, first published during the Second World War in 1940; the book sold widely and made him famous.
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Aggressive mimicry
Aggressive mimicry is a form of mimicry in which predators, parasites or parasitoids share similar signals, using a harmless model, allowing them to avoid being correctly identified by their prey or host.
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Agroecomyrmex
Agroecomyrmex is an extinct genus of ants in the formicid subfamily Agroecomyrmecinae, for which it is the type genus.
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Agulla mineralensis
Agulla mineralensis is an extinct species of snakefly in the raphidiid genus Agulla.
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 18237 November 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist.
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Andrena antoinei
Andrena antoinei is an extinct species of mining bee in the family Andrenidae described from a single fossil found in a Late Oligocene lake in present-day France that existed in semi-arid conditions.
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Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Animal Coloration (book)
Animal Coloration, or in full Animal Coloration.
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Animal reflectors
Animal reflectors or mirrors are important to the survival of many kinds of animal, and, in some cases, have been mimicked by engineers developing photonic crystals.
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Anochetus ambiguus
Anochetus ambiguus is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from two possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola.
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Anochetus conisquamis
Anochetus conisquamis is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from one possibly Miocene fossil found on Hispaniola.
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Anochetus corayi
Anochetus corayi is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from one possibly Miocene fossil found on Hispaniola.
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Anochetus dubius
Anochetus dubius is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from two possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola.
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Anochetus exstinctus
Anochetus exstinctus is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from two possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola.
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Anochetus intermedius
Anochetus intermedius is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from two possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola.
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Anochetus lucidus
Anochetus lucidus is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from two possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola.
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Antheraea polyphemus
Antheraea polyphemus (polyphemus moth) is a North American member of the family Saturniidae, the giant silk moths.
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Anthophorula persephone
Anthophorula (Anthophorula) persephone is an extinct species of bee in the subfamily Apinae known from a pair of possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola.
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Anti-predator adaptation
Anti-predator adaptations are mechanisms developed through evolution that assist prey organisms in their constant struggle against predators.
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Aphaenogaster amphioceanica
Aphaenogaster amphioceanica is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae known from a single possibly Miocene fossil found in amber on Hispaniola.
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Aphaenogaster longaeva
Aphaenogaster longaeva is an extinct species of ant in formicid subfamily Myrmicinae known from a solitary Eocene or Oligocene fossil found in North America.
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Aphaenogaster praerelicta
Aphaenogaster praerelicta is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae known from a solitary Late Oligocene to Early Miocene fossil found in Mexico.
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Aposematism
Aposematism (from Greek ἀπό apo away, σῆμα sema sign) is a term coined by Edward Bagnall PoultonPoulton, 1890.
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Apterostigma electropilosum
Apterostigma electropilosum is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae known from a single possibly Miocene fossil found on Hispaniola.
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Araripenymphes
Araripenymphes is an extinct genus of lacewing in the family Nymphidae known from fossils found in South America.
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Arostropsis
Arostropsis is an extinct genus of broad-nosed weevil in the beetle family Curculionidae known from an Upper Eocene fossil found in Europe.
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Astreptolabis
Astreptolabis is an extinct genus of earwig in the Dermaptera family Pygidicranidae known from a Cretaceous fossil found in Burma.
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Asymphylomyrmex
Asymphylomyrmex is an extinct genus of ants in the formicid subfamily Dolichoderinae.
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Batesian mimicry
Batesian mimicry is a form of mimicry where a harmless species has evolved to imitate the warning signals of a harmful species directed at a predator of them both.
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Beetle
Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota.
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Bigfin reef squid
Sepioteuthis lessoniana, commonly known as the bigfin reef squid or oval squid, is a commercially important species of loliginid squid.
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Bioluminescence
Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by a living organism.
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Bohemiatupus
Bohemiatupus is an extinct genus of griffenfly in the family Meganeuridae and containing a single species Bohemiatupus elegans.
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Bombus trophonius
Bombus trophonius is an extinct species of bumble bee known from a Miocene fossil found in Europe.
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Bombyx mori
The silkworm is the larva or caterpillar or imago of the domestic silkmoth, Bombyx mori (Latin: "silkworm of the mulberry tree").
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Brenthia hexaselena
Brenthia hexaselena is a species of moth of the Choreutidae family.
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Brood parasite
Brood parasites are organisms that rely on others to raise their young.
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Burmaleon
Burmaleon is an extinct genus of lacewing in the family Osmylidae known from fossils found in Asia.
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Camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see (crypsis), or by disguising them as something else (mimesis).
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CC (cat)
CC, for "CopyCat" or "Carbon Copy" (born December 22, 2001), is a brown tabby and white domestic shorthair and the first cloned pet.
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Centre for Fortean Zoology
Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) is an organisation dedicated to cryptozoology, and allied disciplines.
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Cephalotes alveolatus
Cephalotes alveolatus is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae known from a single Middle Miocene fossil found in amber on Hispaniola.
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Cetonia aurata
Cetonia aurata, called the rose chafer or the green rose chafer, is a beetle, long, that has a metallic structurally coloured green and a distinct V-shaped scutellum.
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Chameleon
Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 202 species described as of June 2015.
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Chromatophore
Chromatophores are pigment-containing and light-reflecting cells, or groups of cells, found in a wide range of animals including amphibians, fish, reptiles, crustaceans and cephalopods.
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Cinereous
Cinereous is a colour, meaning ashy grey in appearance, either consisting of or resembling ashes, or a grey colour tinged with coppery brown.
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Cinnabar moth
The cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae) is a brightly coloured arctiid moth found in Europe and western and central Asia.
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Cleaner fish
Cleaner fish are fish that provide a service to other fish species by removing dead skin and ectoparasites.
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Cleaning symbiosis
Cleaning symbiosis is a mutually beneficial association between individuals of two species, where one (the cleaner) removes and eats parasites and other materials from the surface of the other (the client).
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Color (disambiguation)
Color is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue, etc.
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Coloration
Coloration may refer to.
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Coloration evidence for natural selection
Animal coloration provided important early evidence for evolution by natural selection, at a time when little direct evidence was available.
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Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise Through Color and Pattern; Being a Summary of Abbott H. Thayer’s Discoveries is a book published ostensibly by Gerald H. Thayer in 1909, and revised in 1918, but in fact a collaboration with and completion of his father Abbott Handerson Thayer's major work.
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Countershading
Countershading, or Thayer's law, is a method of camouflage in which an animal's coloration is darker on the upper side and lighter on the underside of the body.
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Cuckoo wasp
Commonly known as cuckoo wasps or emerald wasps, the hymenopteran family Chrysididae is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species) of parasitoid or kleptoparasitic wasps, often highly sculptured, with brilliant metallic colors created by structural coloration.
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Dark freckled catshark
The dark freckled catshark (Scyliorhinus ugoi) is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae.
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Decorator crab
Decorator crabs are crabs of several different species, belonging to the superfamily Majoidea (not all of which are decorators), that use materials from their environment to hide from, or ward off, predators.
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Deimatic behaviour
Deimatic behaviour, threat display, or startle display in animals means any pattern of behaviour, such as suddenly displaying conspicuous eyespots, to scare off or momentarily distract a predator, thus giving the prey animal an opportunity to escape.
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Deinodryinus velteni
Deinodryinus velteni is an extinct species of Deinodryinus in the wasp family Dryinidae.
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Denaeaspis
Denaeaspis is an extinct genus of tortoise beetle in the family Chrysomelidae and containing a single species Denaeaspis chelonopsis.
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Diversity of fish
Fish are very diverse animals and can be categorised in many ways.
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Dominickus
Dominickus is an extinct genus of moth in the butterfly-moth family Castniidae containing a single species Dominickus castnioides.
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Dragonfly
A dragonfly is an insect belonging to the order Odonata, infraorder Anisoptera (from Greek ἄνισος anisos, "uneven" and πτερόν pteron, "wing", because the hindwing is broader than the forewing).
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Dryinus grimaldii
Dryinus grimaldii is an extinct species of wasp in the dryinid genus Dryinus.
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Dryinus rasnitsyni
Dryinus rasnitsyni is an extinct species of wasp in the dryinid genus Dryinus.
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Ecdysis
Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa.
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Edward Bagnall Poulton
Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, FRS HFRSE (27 January 1856 – 20 November 1943) was a British evolutionary biologist who was a lifelong advocate of natural selection through a period in which many scientists such as Reginald Punnett doubted its importance.
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Electromyrmex
Electromyrmex is an extinct genus of ants in the formicid subfamily Dolichoderinae.
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Electrostephanus
Electrostephanus is an extinct genus of crown wasp in the hymenopteran family Stephanidae, and is the only genus placed in the subfamily Electrostephaninae.
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Elephantomyia baltica
Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) baltica is an extinct species of crane fly in the family Limoniidae.
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Emiliana alexandri
Emiliana is an extinct genus of planthopper in the Tropiduchidae tribe Emilianini and containing the single species Emiliana alexandri.
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Eosacantha
Eosacantha is an extinct genus of tortoise beetle in the family Chrysomelidae and containing a single species Eosacantha delocranioides.
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Epiborkhausenites
Epiborkhausenites is an extinct genus of moth in the concealer moth family Oecophoridae and containing a single species Epiborkhausenites obscurotrimaculatus.
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Evidence of common descent
Evidence of common descent of living organisms has been discovered by scientists researching in a variety of disciplines over many decades, demonstrating that all life on Earth comes from a single ancestor.
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Eyespot (mimicry)
An eyespot (sometimes ocellus) is an eye-like marking.
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Fish scale
The skin of most fishes is covered with scales, which, in many cases, are animal reflectors or produce animal coloration.
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Flower mantis
Flower mantises are those species of praying mantis that mimic flowers.
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Formosibittacus
Formosibittacus is an extinct genus of hangingfly in the family Bittacidae and containing a single species Formosibittacus macularis.
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Fox
Foxes are small-to-medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae.
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Fractal
In mathematics, a fractal is an abstract object used to describe and simulate naturally occurring objects.
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Frank Evers Beddard
Frank Evers Beddard FRS FRSE (19 June 1858 – 14 July 1925) was an English zoologist.
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Fulvous
Fulvous is a colour, sometimes described as dull orange, brownish-yellow or tawny, it can also be likened to a variation of buff, beige or butterscotch.
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Fur
Fur is the hair covering of non-human mammals, particularly those mammals with extensive body hair that is soft and thick.
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Golden palm civet
The golden palm civet (Paradoxurus zeylonensis) is a palm civet endemic to Sri Lanka.
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Goldeneye cichlid
The goldeneye cichlid (Nannacara anomala) is a species of cichlid found in fresh water from the Aruka River in Guyana, to the Maroni River in Surinam.
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Grove snail
The grove snail or brown-lipped snail (Cepaea nemoralis) is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc.
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Halictus? savenyei
Halictus? savenyei is an extinct species of sweat bee possibly in the halictid genus Halictus.
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Halmus chalybeus
Halmus chalybeus, commonly known as the steelblue ladybird, is a species of ladybird (the beetle family Coccinellidae).
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Harmonia conformis
Harmonia conformis (the large spotted ladybird) is a species of ladybird (the family Coccinellidae).
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Harmonia quadripunctata
Harmonia quadripunctata (the cream-streaked lady beetle or four-spot ladybird) is a species of ladybird belonging to the family Coccinellidae.
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Histiogamphelus
Histiogamphelus is a genus of fish known as the crested pipefishes.
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Hoangus venustus
Hoangus venustus, commonly known as the flax ladybird, is a species of ladybird beetle that is native to New Zealand, being found at least in the North Island.
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Hugh B. Cott
Hugh Bamford Cott (6 July 1900 – 18 April 1987) was a British zoologist, an authority on both natural and military camouflage, and a scientific illustrator and photographer.
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Human guise
A human guise (also human disguise and sometimes human form) is a concept in fantasy, folklore, mythology, religion, literary tradition, iconography, and science fiction whereby non-human beings such as aliens, angels, demons, gods, monsters, robots, Satan, or shapeshifters are disguised to seem human.
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Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae.
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Hydriomena? protrita
Hydriomena? protrita is an extinct species of moth in the family Geometridae, and possibly in the modern genus Hydriomena.
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Hyptia deansi
Hyptia deansi is an extinct species of ensign wasp in the family Evaniidae known from a solitary Late Oligocene to Early Miocene fossil found in Mexico.
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Iberian worm lizard
The Iberian worm lizard or European worm lizard (Blanus cinereus) is a species of reptile in the family Blanidae (worm lizards) of the suborder Amphisbaenidae.
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Indian peafowl
The Indian peafowl or blue peafowl (Pavo cristatus), a large and brightly coloured bird, is a species of peafowl native to South Asia, but introduced in many other parts of the world.
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Isabelline (colour)
Isabelline, also known as isabella, is a pale grey-yellow, pale fawn, pale cream-brown or parchment colour.
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Ithomiini
Ithomiini is a butterfly tribe in the nymphalid subfamily Danainae.
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John Endler
John A. Endler (born 1947) is an ethologist and evolutionary biologist noted for his work on the adaptation of vertebrates to their unique perceptual environments, and the ways in which animal sensory capacities and colour patterns co-evolve.
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Jurahylobittacus
Jurahylobittacus is an extinct genus of hangingfly in the family Bittacidae and containing a single species Jurahylobittacus astictus.
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Kalligrammatidae
Kalligrammatidae, sometimes known as kalligrammatids or kalligrammatid lacewings, is a family of extinct insects in the order Neuroptera (lacewings) that contains twenty genera and a number of species.
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Konstantin Mereschkowski
Konstantin Sergeevich Mereschkowski (p; – 9 January 1921) was a prominent Russian biologist and botanist, active mainly around Kazan, whose research on lichens led him to propose the theory of symbiogenesis – that larger, more complex cells (of eukaryotes) evolved from the symbiotic relationship between less complex ones.
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List of rabbit breeds
As of 2017, there were at least 305 breeds of domestic rabbit in 70 countries around the world.
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List of snakes of South Dakota
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Macroxiphus
Macroxiphus is a genus of Tettigoniidae, distributed in South-East Asia and Micronesia.
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Makarkinia
Makarkinia is an extinct genus of lacewing in the family Kalligrammatidae described by Martins-Neto in 1997 from a fossil found in South America.
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Marking
Marking may refer to.
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Melatonin
Melatonin, also known as N-acetyl-5-methoxy tryptamine, is a hormone that is produced by the pineal gland in animals and regulates sleep and wakefulness.
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Mesembrinella caenozoica
Mesembrinella caenozoica is an extinct species of blow fly in the family Mesembrinellidae.
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Michael Majerus
Michael Eugene Nicolas Majerus (13 February 1954 – 27 January 2009) was a British geneticist and Professor of Evolution at the University of Cambridge.
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Military camouflage
Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by a military force to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces.
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Mimicry
In evolutionary biology, mimicry is a similarity of one organism, usually an animal, to another that has evolved because the resemblance is selectively favoured by the behaviour of a shared signal receiver that can respond to both.
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Mongolbittacus
Mongolbittacus is an extinct genus of hangingfly in the family Bittacidae and containing a single species Mongolbittacus daohugoensis.
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Nanotermes
Nanotermes is an extinct genus of termites in the Isoptera family Termitidae known from only one Eocene fossil found in amber of the Cambay Basin (Gujarat, India).
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Neurosymploca? oligocenica
Neurosymploca? oligocenica is an extinct species of moth in the family Zygaenidae, and possibly in the modern genus Neurosymploca.
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Oenpelli python
The Oenpelli python, known in binomial nomenclature as Morelia oenpelliensis or Simalia oenpelliensis, is a large python species endemic to the sandstone massif area of the western Arnhem Land region in the Northern Territory of Australia.
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On Growth and Form
On Growth and Form is a book by the Scottish mathematical biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948).
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Paraneuretus
Paraneuretus is an extinct genus of formicid in the ant subfamily Aneuretinae known from fossils found in Asia and Europe.
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Pattern formation
The science of pattern formation deals with the visible, (statistically) orderly outcomes of self-organization and the common principles behind similar patterns in nature.
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Patterns in nature
Patterns in nature are visible regularities of form found in the natural world.
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Peacock flounder
The peacock flounder (Bothus mancus), also known as the flowery flounder, is a species of fish in the family Bothidae (lefteye flounders).
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Peafowl
The peafowl include three species of birds in the genera Pavo and Afropavo of the Phasianidae family, the pheasants and their allies.
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Peter Herring
Peter John Herring is an English marine biologist known for his work on the coloration, camouflage and bioluminescence of animals in the deep sea, and for the textbook The Biology of the Deep Ocean.
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Photonic crystal
A photonic crystal is a periodic optical nanostructure that affects the motion of photons in much the same way that ionic lattices affect electrons in solids.
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Pigment
A pigment is a material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength-selective absorption.
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Plumage
Plumage ("feather") refers both to the layer of feathers that cover a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers.
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Plumalexius
Plumalexius is a genus of wasps in the extinct monotypic family Plumalexiidae, containing a single species, Plumalexius rasnitsyni.
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Pocket pet
Pocket pet is a term used to refer to a small pet mammal commonly kept as a household pet.
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Prey detection
Prey detection is the process by which predators are able to detect and locate their prey via sensory signals.
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Prostylotermes
Prostylotermes is an extinct genus of termite in the isopteran family Stylotermitidae known from two Eocene fossils found in India.
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Protostephanus
Protostephanus is an extinct genus of crown wasp in the Hymenoptera family Stephanidae known from an Eocene fossil found in the United States of America.
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Pseudogarypus synchrotron
Pseudogarypus synchrotron is an extinct species of pseudoscorpion in the family Pseudogarypidae known from only two Eocene fossils found in Europe.
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Rafaelnymphes
Rafaelnymphes is an extinct genus of lacewing in the family Nymphidae known from a fossil found in South America.
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Red-headed krait
The red-headed krait (Bungarus flaviceps), is a large venomous elapid snake with dramatic coloration.
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Romeldale
The Romeldale is a breed of domestic sheep native to the United States.
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Rosette (zoology)
A rosette is a rose-like marking or formation found on the fur and skin of some animals, particularly cats.
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Ruddy mongoose
The ruddy mongoose (Herpestes smithii) is a species of mongoose found in hill forests of peninsular India and Sri Lanka.
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Salamander
Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by a lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults.
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Sawfly
Sawflies are the insects of the suborder Symphyta within the order Hymenoptera alongside ants, bees and wasps.
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Schwenckfeldina archoica
Schwenckfeldina archoica is an extinct species of dark winged fungus gnat in the family Sciaridae known from a solitary Late Oligocene to Early Miocene fossil found in Mexico.
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Scitalis
The Scitalis or Scytale is a serpent from Medieval bestiaries, such as the Aberdeen Bestiary, supposed to have such marvelous markings on its back that its appearance would stun the viewer, slowing the person down so that they could be caught.
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Sculpture (mollusc)
Sculpture is a feature of many of the shells of mollusks.
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Scyliorhinus cabofriensis
Scyliorhinus cabofriensis is a species of catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae.
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Secondary sex characteristic
Secondary sex characteristics are features that appear during puberty in humans, and at sexual maturity in other animals.
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Self-decoration camouflage
Self-decoration camouflage is a method of camouflage in which animals or soldiers select materials, sometimes living, from the environment and attach these to themselves for concealment.
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Sex
Organisms of many species are specialized into male and female varieties, each known as a sex. Sexual reproduction involves the combining and mixing of genetic traits: specialized cells known as gametes combine to form offspring that inherit traits from each parent.
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Sinomeganeura
Sinomeganeura is an extinct genus of griffenfly in the family Meganeuridae and containing a single species Sinomeganeura huangheensis.
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Skunk
Skunks are North and South American mammals in the family Mephitidae.
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Solid white (chicken plumage)
In poultry standards, solid white is coloration of plumage in chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) characterized by a uniform pure white color across all feathers, which is not generally associated with depigmentation in any other part of the body.
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Spawn (biology)
Spawn is the eggs and sperm released or deposited into water by aquatic animals.
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Spider wasp
Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps or pompilid wasps.
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Striped polecat
The striped polecat (Ictonyx striatus) - also called the African polecat, zoril, zorille, zorilla, Cape polecat, and African skunk - is a member of the family Mustelidae that resembles a skunk (of the family Mephitidae).
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Structural coloration
Structural coloration is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light, sometimes in combination with pigments.
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Sumatran tiger
The Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) is a tiger population that lives in the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
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Syndesus ambericus
Syndesus ambericus is an extinct species of stag beetles in the subfamily Syndesinae known from a single possibly Miocene fossil found on Hispaniola.
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Termitaradus avitinquilinus
Termitaradus avitinquilinus is an extinct species of termite bug in the family Termitaphididae known from several possibly Miocene fossils found in the Dominican Republic.
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Termitaradus dominicanus
Termitaradus dominicanus is an extinct species of termite bug in the family Termitaphididae known from a Miocene fossil found on Hispaniola.
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The Colours of Animals
The Colours of Animals is a zoology book written in 1890 by Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856–1943).
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The Mathematics of Life
The Mathematics of Life is a 2011 popular science book by mathematician Ian Stewart, on the increasing role of mathematics in biology.
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons
The Naturalist on the River Amazons, subtitled A Record of the Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, during Eleven Years of Travel, is an 1863 book by the British naturalist Henry Walter Bates about his expedition to the Amazon basin.
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Tiger
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest cat species, most recognizable for its pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside.
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Tiger tail
A tiger tail is part of the morphology of a tiger.
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Tim Caro
Tim Caro (c. 1952 –) is an evolutionary ecologist known for his work on conservation biology, animal behaviour, anti-predator defences in animals, and especially the function of zebra stripes.
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Tortoiseshell cat
Tortoiseshell is a cat coat coloring named for its similarity to tortoiseshell material.
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Tortrix? destructus
Tortrix? destructus is an extinct species of moth in the family Tortricidae, and possibly in the modern genus Tortrix.
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Tortrix? florissantana
Tortrix? florissantana is an extinct species of moth in the family Tortricidae, and possibly in the modern genus Tortrix.
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Toxolabis
Toxolabis is an extinct genus of earwig in the dermapteran family Anisolabididae known from a Cretaceous fossil found in Burma.
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Tytthodiplatys
Tytthodiplatys is an extinct genus of earwig in the family Diplatyidae known from a Cretaceous fossil found in Myanmar.
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Uintascorpio
Uintascorpio is an extinct genus of scorpion in the family Buthidae and containing the single species Uintascorpio halandrasorum.
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Uruz Project
The Uruz Project is a project with the goal of breeding back the extinct aurochs (Bos p. primigenius).
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Variable checkerspot
The variable checkerspot or Chalcedon checkerspot (Euphydryas chalcedona) is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.
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Vision in fishes
Vision is an important sensory system for most species of fish.
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Western trumpeter whiting
The western trumpeter whiting, Sillago burrus, is a species of marine fish of the smelt whiting family Sillaginidae that is commonly found along the northern coast of Australia and in southern Indonesia and New Guinea.
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Wishbone (TV series)
Wishbone is a half-hour live-action children's television show that was produced from 1995 to 1998 and broadcast on PBS Kids.
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Yantaromyrmex
Yantaromyrmex is an extinct genus of ants first described in 2013.
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Yellow-billed stork
The Yellow-billed stork (Mycteria ibis), sometimes also called the wood stork or wood ibis, is a large African wading stork species in the family Ciconiidae.
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Zigrasolabis
Zigrasolabis is an extinct genus of earwig in the family Labiduridae known from Cretaceous fossils found in Myanmar.
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Zophotermes
Zophotermes is an extinct genus of termite in the Isoptera family Rhinotermitidae known from two Eocene fossils found in India.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_coloration
