Eat, escape, love: The price of looking sexy
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - 03:36
in Biology & Nature
In the animal kingdom colorful traits can be both a blessing and a curse. A new study has studied the conspicuous wing coloration of two species of damselflies. Their results imply that males, but not females, pay a high cost when using color to communicate with other damselflies, both in terms of predation risk and visibility to prey.