Contrasting stripes are a widespread feature of group living in birds, mammals and fishes.

ABSTRACT: Grouping is a widespread form of predator defence, with individuals in groups often performing evasive collective movements in response to attack by predators. Individuals in these groups use behavioural rules to coordinate their movements, with visual cues about neighbours' positions and orientations often informing movement decisions. Although the exact visual cues individuals use to coordinate their movements with neighbours have not yet been decoded, some studies have suggested that stripes, lines, or other body patterns may act as conspicuous conveyors of movement information that could promote coordinated group movement, or promote dazzle camouflage, thereby confusing predators. We used phylogenetic logistic regressions to test whether the contrasting achromatic stripes present in fo

SUBMITTER: Negro JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7657865 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature