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THERE has been some interesting correspondence in recent numbers of The Field on the question of the procryptic coloration of big game, some writers taking one side and some another in the controversy. Now although there is a certain amount of evidence, scattered through sporting literature, showing that some species of African antelopes and zebras are hard for human beings to detect in particular surroundings, there is, so far as I am aware, scarcely any testimony, based upon observation in the jungle, to prove that the sight of predatory carnivora is baffled in the same way by colour assimilation.
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POCOCK, R. Procryptic Coloration a Protection against Lions.. Nature 90, 593 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090593a0
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