File:White fowl lacking counter-shading from Thayer 1909.jpg

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English: Figure 7, 'White fowl lacking counter-shading' from Thayer 1909. Thayer argued in the book that almost all animal coloration was for camouflage, principally via countershading.
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Source own scan from Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom, 1909
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Abbott Handerson Thayer  (1849–1921)  wikidata:Q306759 s:en:Author:Abbott Handerson Thayer
 
Abbott Handerson Thayer
Description American painter and naturalist
Date of birth/death 12 August 1849 Edit this at Wikidata 29 May 1921 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Boston New Hampshire
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