SOCIAL CONTEXT AFFECTS CAMOUFLAGE IN A CRYPTIC FISH SPECIES

Crypsis, or the ability to avoid detection and/or recognition, is an important and widespread anti-predator strategy across the animal kingdom.Many animals are able to camouflage themselves by adapting their body colour to the local environment.In particular, rapid changes in body colour are often critical to the survival of cryptic prey which rely

Natural gas hydrate occurs beneath many continental slopes and in arctic permafrost areas.Recent studies have indicated that the largest deposits of gas hydrate might lie in nearly horizontal layers several hundred meters beneath the seafloor of continental slopes, especially in the large, accretionary sedimentary prisms of subduction zones.Expedit