Positioning behavior according to individual color variation improves camouflage in novel habitats

Adrián Baños-Villalba, David P Quevedo, Pim Edelaar and John SkelhornHandling Editor

Behavioral Ecology, 2018, vol. 29, issue 2, 404-410

Abstract: Understanding how organisms interact with their environment is a key issue, especially in the current context of global change. We find that ground-perching grasshoppers colonizing urban pavements modify their camouflage and escape strategies depending on how well their body coloration resembles the pavement. A virtual predation experiment confirms that this adaptive behavioral flexibility allows individuals to reduce predation in their new environment.

Keywords: behavior; background matching; behavioral flexibility; camouflage; novel environment; urban adaptation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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