To Be Seen or to Hide: Visual Characteristics of Body Patterns for Camouflage and Communication in the Australian Giant Cuttlefish Sepia apama

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  2011-04-06

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1086/659626PMID 21508613
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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