{"id":3311,"date":"2013-11-19T11:19:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2013-11-19T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:19:15","slug":"hiding-in-plain-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2013\/hiding-in-plain-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding in Plain Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Webster was a finalist in the 2013 3 Minute Thesis Competition.<\/p>\n<p>For more info about the 2014 3MT and Grad Research Forum, please visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IvQGYf8CZF8\">3MTGRF website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The following article about Richard Webster\u2019s PhD research was published in LiveScience.com\u00a0 on Oct. 23\/13.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Camouflage that matches an animal\u2019s \u201cedges\u201d with its surroundings makes it harder for a predator\u2019s eye to track the prey down, a new study reports.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"an emu (shows camouflage)\" src=\"http:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/emu-240x208.jpg\" \/>Using computer-generated moths as prey and humans as predators, scientists tracked the eye movements of 48 human subjects. On moths with disruptive or \u201cedge\u201d coloration, the predator\u2019s eyes lingered longer on the animal and passed over it more frequentlycompared to animals without these markings \u2014 even if the rest of the moth\u2019scamouflage did not match the background well.<\/p>\n<p>While the survival of animals with disruptive coloration has been covered in other studies, this is the first time scientists tracked how the confusion occurs, co-author Christopher Hassall told LiveScience. The laser tracking system can distinguish between when a human eyemoves quickly \u2013 and doesn\u2019t see much \u2013 and when it lingers and fixates on a target. By looking at the times people lingered or passed over a target, it was possible to see how well the moth blended into its surroundings, he said. The study was only limited to human predators, however.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>For the full article:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2013\/grad-student-research\/\">http:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2013\/grad-student-research\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Webster was a finalist in the 2013 3 Minute Thesis Competition. For more info about the 2014 3MT and Grad Research Forum, please visit our 3MTGRF website. The following article about Richard Webster\u2019s PhD research was published in LiveScience.com\u00a0 on Oct. 23\/13. Camouflage that matches an animal\u2019s \u201cedges\u201d with its surroundings makes it harder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hiding in Plain Sight - Department of Biology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Richard Webster was a finalist in the 2013 3 Minute Thesis Competition. 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