Dynamic Camouflage in Benthic and Pelagic Cephalopods: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Crypsis Based on Color, Reflection, and Bioluminescence

Abstract

Our overall goal is to understand the perceptual and mechanistic principles that underlay camouflage framed in the context of the animals environment. In particular, we hope to characterize and understand the perceptual abilities of several species of benthic and pelagic cephalopods, the aspects of their optical environment that affect their camouflage behavior, the characterization of that behavior, and the molecular mechanisms inside the skin by which those responses are accomplished.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2011
Accession Number
ADA557225

Entities

People

  • Alison Sweeney
  • Daniel E Morse
  • Dariusz Stramski
  • Jules S. Jaffe
  • Sönke Johnsen

Organizations

  • Duke University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cell Membrane
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Information Processing
  • Infrared Detectors
  • Oceanography
  • Optical Detectors
  • Optical Materials
  • Optical Phenomena
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Polymers
  • Reflection
  • Two Dimensional
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Computer Vision.
  • Systems Analysis and Design