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However, the effectiveness of camouflage is significantly reduced when the animal moves, leading to the need for defence adaptations when in motion..<\/p>\n<p>One such adaptation, flash behaviour, is the focus of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rspb.2021.0866\">newly-published research<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/'\">Carleton biology<\/a>\u00a0researchers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=wJY5ObQAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Karl Loeffler-Henry<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/tom-sherratt\/\">Tom Sherratt<\/a>, and Changku Kang (former Carleton Post-doctoral Fellow and now Professor at Mokpo National University, South Korea). This defensive behaviour is the exposure of a previously-hidden conspicuous signal when an animal is moving. Although flash behaviour is widespread in the animal kingdom and has captured the attention of naturalists for more than a century, it has been the subject of relatively few studies. In particular, understanding how flash behaviour helps prevent animals from being eaten has remained elusive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/2021\/carleton-researchers-discover-timing-is-everything-when-birds-trick-predators\/\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In nature, most animals are at risk of being attacked by predators. This has led many species to use camouflage as a means of avoiding detection. However, the effectiveness of camouflage is significantly reduced when the animal moves, leading to the need for defence adaptations when in motion.. 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