Mixed-phenotype grouping: the interaction between oddity and crypsis.

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Aggregations of different-looking animals are frequently seen in nature, despite well-documented selection pressures on individuals to maintain phenotypically homogenous groups. Two well-known theories, the 'confusion effect' (reduced ability of a predator to accurately target an individual in a group) and the 'oddity effect' (preferential targeting of phenotypically distinct, 'odd', individuals) act together to...

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