This article is about animals that are difficult to detect. For the genus of grasses, see Crypsis (genus). For animals whose existence is not scientifically recognized, see Cryptid.
Hiding
Revealing itself
Cryptic behavior. Mossy leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus sikorae) Montagne d’Ambre, Madagascar, showing the camouflage disguise using the dermal flap.
In ecology, crypsis is the ability of an animal or a plant[1] to avoid observation or detection by other animals. It may be a predation strategy or an antipredator adaptation. Methods include camouflage, nocturnality, subterranean lifestyle and mimicry. Crypsis can involve visual, olfactory (with pheromones) or auditory concealment. When it is visual, the term cryptic coloration, effectively a synonym for animal camouflage, is sometimes used, but many different methods of camouflage are employed by animals or plants.[1]
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strategy, crypsis is used by predators against prey and by prey against predators. Crypsis also applies to eggs and pheromone production. Crypsis can in...
like foliage rustling in the wind. This behaviour may represent motion crypsis, preventing detection by predators, or motion masquerade, promoting misclassification...
Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 15 February 2022. Mifsud, Stephen (2002-08-23). "Crypsis aculeata (Pricklegrass) : MaltaWildPlants.com - the online Flora of the...
various ways that crypsis can evolve among lineages. Many cephalopods have the ability to actively camouflage themselves, controlling crypsis through neural...
In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between...
March 2024. Clayton, W.D.; Vorontsova, M.S.; Harman, K.T.; Williamson, H. "Crypsis schoenoides". GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora. Royal Botanic Gardens...
Maloney SK (February 2014). "The fur of mammals in exposed environments; do crypsis and thermal needs necessarily conflict? The polar bear and marsupial koala...
help the harvestmen avoid encountering a potential predator and include crypsis, aposematism, and mimicry. Particular patterns or colour markings on harvestmen's...
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strongly contrasting pattern. It is often combined with other methods of crypsis including background colour matching and countershading; special cases...
disruptive coloration to blend into the environment similar to a frog's crypsis skin. The M1942 Frog Skin pattern was the United States military's first...
heat-detecting night vision devices (thermographic camera systems). For crypsis, the panels can display an infrared image of the vehicle's background;...
Minus Militia, a trio consisting of Radical Redemption, Chain Reaction and Crypsis. He is signed to the Most Wanted DJ artist agency. In 2012, Radical Redemption...
making it hard to see (crypsis) or by disguising it as something else (mimesis). There are several methods of achieving crypsis. These include, resemblance...
pattern compared to that of the background is significant in display and crypsis". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 32 (4): 427–433. doi:10.1111/j...
necrophagous beetle, is most active during at dusk and dawn. Cathemeral Crypsis Diurnality Nocturnality "Glossary". North American Mammals. Smithsonian...
primates have evolved several different antipredator adaptations including crypsis, alarm calls and mobbing. Several species have separate alarm calls for...
Crypsis vaginiflora is a species of grass known by the common name modest pricklegrass. It is native to North Africa but it can be found in other parts...
cocoons than nests in low predation areas. Animals use the techniques of crypsis or camouflage, concealment, and mimicry, for avoiding detection.: 11 Some...
least the 19th century. Popular hypotheses include the following: The crypsis hypothesis suggests that the stripes allow the animal to blend in with...
Speed, Michael P. (2004). Avoiding attack: the evolutionary ecology of crypsis, warning signals, and mimicry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198528593...
pollinated both during the day and at night. Nocturnality is a form of crypsis, an adaptation to avoid or enhance predation. Although lions are cathemeral...
express territoriality, as nonterritorial females, which are able to use crypsis for predator defence, often do not have horns. Females possess horns only...
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