ArticleCurrent zoology2019
Flight initiation distance, color and camouflage.
Article in Current zoology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Climatic variation and risk assessment in a highly seasonal mammal.Current zoology · 2025Article
- Differences in Colour Pattern, Behaviour and Gene Expression in the Brain Suggest Divergent Camouflage Strategies in Sympatric Reef Fish Species.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Breeding barn swallows recognize householders from strangers.Animal cognition · 2025Article
- Article
- Herons in Aquafarms Are More Fearful of Humans.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Flight initiation distance and bird tolerance to humans in rural and urban habitats.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- The anti-predation benefit of flash displays is related to the distance at which the prey initiates its escape.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Disturbance and predation risk influence vigilance synchrony of black-necked cranesEcology and evolution · 2021Article
- Urban invaders are not bold risk-takers: a study of 3 invasive lizards in Southern California.Current zoology · 2020Article
- Face masks matter: Eurasian tree sparrows show reduced fear responses to people wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.Global ecology and conservation · 2020Article
- Anti-predator behavior along elevational and latitudinal gradients in dark-eyed juncos.Current zoology · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Camouflage is widespread throughout the animal kingdom allowing individuals to avoid detection and hence save time and energy rather than escape from an approaching predator. Thus, camouflage is likely to have co-evolved with antipredator behavior. Here, we propose that camouflage results in dichotomous escape behavior within and among species with classes of individuals and species with cryptic coloration having shorter flight initiation distances (FIDs; the distance at which an individual takes flight when approached by a human). We report the results of 2 tests of this hypothesis. First, bird species with cryptically colored plumage have consistently shorter FID than closely related species without such color. Within species with sexually dimorphic plumage, brightly colored adult male common pheasants
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.