Sensory ecology: see me, hear me.
The animal world is replete with vibrant colours: these are often used as display signals and selection has solved a fundamental problem in information transfer by enhancing the detectability of these signals against the backgrounds on which they are perceived by the particular sensory systems of their receivers.
Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA. Mryan@mail.utexas.edu
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