Revisiting Abbott Thayer: non-scientific reflections about camouflage in art, war and zoology Export

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TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3653079 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3653079 N2 - 10.1098/rstb.2008.0250 This paper reviews the achievements of Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921), an American painter and naturalist whose pioneering writings on animal camouflage addressed shared concerns among artists, zoologists and military tacticians. It discusses his beliefs about camouflage (both natural and military) in the context of his training as an artist, with particular emphasis on three of his major ideas: countershading, ruptive (or disruptive) coloration and background picturing. IS - 1516 JF - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences EP - 501 TI - Revisiting Abbott Thayer: non-scientific reflections about camouflage in art, war and zoology VL - 364 SP - 497 KW - biology KW - camouflage KW - disruptive AU - Behrens, Roy PY - 2009/02/27/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0250 ER -