Amanda M Franklin

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European stonechat (Saxicola rubicola) eating a butterfly with black-and-orange warning colours. Stanislav Harvancik

Warn, hide or stand out? How colour in the animal world is a battle for survival

Iliana Medina, The University of Melbourne; Alice Exnerova, Charles University; Amanda M Franklin, La Trobe University; Kate Umbers, Western Sydney University, and William Allen, Swansea University

A global experiment has helped explain why some animals use stealthy patterns to hide from predators, while others use warning colours to avoid being eaten.
With 16 photoreceptors to humans’ three, mantis shrimp see the bigger picture. DiverKen

Mantis shrimp have the world’s best eyes – but why?

Amanda M Franklin, Tufts University

As humans, we experience an amazing world of colour, but what can other animals see? Some see much more than us, but how they use this vision is largely unknown. We see what we see because our eyes have…

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