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Adaptive function of felid coat patterns : Experience, fiction and a step forward aesthetics

Publication at Faculty of Science, First Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2009

Abstract

The chapter focuses on tiger stripes and expresses doubts about their adaptive function. There are significant problems in Wallace’s theory of cryptic function, in this case, and the heart of the matter does not seem to be the phenomenon of aposematism.