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  Camouflage or caution? How anti-predator strategies have evolved The Saxicola rubicola bird eating a moth. Image by Stanislav Harvancik Predators and the environment determine why some animals use camouflage to avoid being eaten, while others use bright colours to warn them off, new research reveals. Published today in the journal Science , the findings help explain the evolution and global distribution of the most common colour strategies used by insects to avoid predators. The global study took place across six continents and involved over 50 scientific collaborators. Using the same experiment, researchers deployed more than 15,000 artificial prey with three different colours to investigate which strategy works best to deter predators: a classic warning pattern of orange and black, a ...