Individual differences | Methods | Statistics | Clinical |
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| Individual differences | Methods | Statistics | Clinical |
Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology
| A predator's acquisition of a food source can be divided into
four stages: detection, attack, capture and consumption. At
every stage in this predatory sequence, adaptations that
maximize the prey's chance of survival have evolved. Animal
adaptations Edit Avoiding detection Edit Avoiding being seen
Edit - Main article: Camouflage For a predator to locate a
potential meal, it must first identify an organism as prey.
Prey, however, have many adaptive characteristics which make
such a task difficult. Crypsis is the ability of an animal,
predator or prey, to make itself hard to see. Camouflage is one
heavily utilised method, and involves the mimicking of the
colour and patterns of the environment. This is achieved by
external pigmentation patterns, and resting immob