Animals' bright colours don't lie: eat me and you'll be sorry - Nature.com

-

The bright colours of animals such as poison dart frogs act as a warning signal, telling predators that the humble creatures pack a noxious punch. Now, an analysis of the results of multiple scientific studies shows that the most eye-catching animals also tend to be the most toxic.

Access options

Rent or Buy article

Get time limited or full article access on ReadCube.

from$8.99

Rent or Buy

All prices are NET prices.

Nature 593, 11 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01123-7

References

  1. 1.

    Proc. R. Soc. B (2021)

Download references

Subjects

  • Evolution

Latest on:

Ancient DNA points to origins of modern domestic horses

Ancient DNA points to origins of modern domestic horses

News

Ivory hunting drives evolution of tuskless elephants

Ivory hunting drives evolution of tuskless elephants

News

Evidence for European presence in the Americas in ad 1021

Evidence for European presence in the Americas in ad 1021

Article

Nature Careers

Jobs

  • Bioinformatician

    University of Calgary (U of C)

    Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  • Research & Development specialist for Software Defined Radio Laboratory

    Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg

    Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  • Research Associate (Postdoc) on applied machine-learning and software engineering

    Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg

    Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  • Research scientist in IoT- and AI-based Decision Support Systems

    Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg

    Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Best in the biz: The very best of Bill Flick

-
Image
zoo med tortoise house :: Article Creator Giant Tortoise Shell To Find Home In Zoo's Natural History Museum Hyderabad: Chanakya, the 125-year-old Giant Galapagos tortoise which breathed its last in the city Nehru Zoological Park, will be remembered by the zoo with authorities deciding to keep on display its carapace in the zoo's natural history museum. The tortoise died on March 16. Chanakya's carapace – the hard outer shell – will be cleaned and placed on display at the museum, zoo curator Dr Sunil S. Hiremath has said. The rest of the remains of the zoo's longest inhabitant, were incinerated after the post-mortem that showed that the animal had died of natural causes resulting from multiple organ failure. The tortoise's shell had not only weathered a span of three centuries during Chanakya's life time, but also shenanigans in 2015 by a 24-year-old man, Fazal Shaik, who jumped into its enclosure, climbed on the...
Read more

PHOTOS: 20 pets up for adoption now in the Valley

-
Image
small green frogs :: Article Creator See The World's Tiniest Frogs - And Why Being So Small Is So Hard - BBC 20 February 2024 ShareSave Sarah Bregel Features correspondent ShareSave Brachycephalus pulex are now the smallest known vertebrates (Credit: Renato Gaiga) Brachycephalus pulex might be the title holders for world's smallest vertebrate. But it's not easy being green – or tiny. Scientists believe they may know what the world's smallest vertebrate is. A tiny, pea-sized Brazilian frog called Brachycephalus pulex (or, Brazilian flea toad, even though it is a frog) has the tiniest measurements, according to new research. Back in 2011, Mirco Solé, a researcher at the State University of Santa Cruz in Brazil, was the first to investigate this species' size compared to that of other similar frogs. The sample wasn't large enough at the time to be conclusive, but the most recent research, in which So...
Read more