There are many others among the shore Crustacea which show what seems to be a "protective resemblance" in colour and form to their surroundings.
No conception of the range of protective resemblance can be formed when the creatures are seen or figured isolated from their surroundings.
This mode of elimination has been a factor in the development of protective resemblance and so-called mimicry, and we may conveniently illustrate it by reference to these qualities.
Z] Then, too, there are some animals with variable protective resemblance--the resemblance changing with a changing environment.
If this process of protective resemblance be carried far, the general resemblance in hue may pass into special resemblance to particular objects.
Very striking are those cases of protective resemblance in which the animal resembles in color and shape, sometimes in extraordinary detail, some particular object or part of its usual environment.
The walking-stick or twig insect is an excellent example of what is called "protective resemblance" among animals.
Each student should search for himself for examples of protective resemblance.
The student of insects, who is so familiar with this very form of protective resemblance in larvae, and even perfect insects, will not be inclined to consider the suggestion far-fetched.
The conclusion expressed in the above quoted passage is opposed by the extraordinary development of Protective Resemblance in the immature stages of animals, especially insects.
It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the well-known theories of Protective Resemblance, Warning Colours, and Mimicry both Batesian and Mullerian.
Protective Resemblance of a very marked and beautiful kind is found in certain plants, inhabitants of desert areas.
Our problem is the evolution of elusiveness, so far at least as that depends on likeness to surroundings, on protective resemblance to other objects, and in its highest reaches on true mimicry.
Numerous examples of protective resemblance exist in the New Zealand moths and butterflies; in fact, it may safely be asserted that nearly all the colouring we observe in these insects has been acquired for protective purposes.
These five characteristic features of mimicry show us that it is really an exceptional form of protective resemblance.
Its colour is a dull grey, but the ground is variously mottled, often in such a manner as to give it a protective resemblance to its surroundings.
The most obvious is, that we have gradations of mimicry and of protective resemblance--a fact which is strongly suggestive of a natural process having been at work.
But the most wonderful and undoubted case of protective resemblance in a butterfly which I have ever seen, is that of the common Indian Kallima inachis, and its Malayan ally, Kallima paralekta.
This insect affords one of the best examples of protective resemblance.
Protective Resemblance, or the system of colouring which conceals the animal from its prey, or hides the prey from its foe.
It is employed for the purpose of attack (aggressive resemblance or anticryptic colouring) as well as of defence (protective resemblance or procryptic colouring).
Protective resemblance is far commoner among animals than aggressive resemblance, in correspondence with the fact that predaceous forms are as a rule much larger and much less numerous than their prey.
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