Comment on "Open-ocean fish reveal an omnidirectional solution to camouflage in polarized environments"

Thomas W Cronin; Yakir Luc Gagnon; Sönke Johnsen; N Justin Marshall; Nicholas W Roberts

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Comment on "Open-ocean fish reveal an omnidirectional solution to camouflage in polarized environments"

Thomas W Cronin, Yakir Luc Gagnon, Sönke Johnsen, N Justin Marshall, Nicholas W Roberts

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Abstract

Brady et al (Reports, 20 November 2015, p. 965) claimed that the silvery sides of certain fish are cryptic when viewed by animals with polarization sensitivity, which they termed "polarocrypsis." After examining their evidence, we find this claim to be unsupported due to (i) pseudoreplication, (ii) confounding polarization contrast with intensity contrast, and (iii) measurements taken at very shallow depths.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	552
Number of pages	1
Journal	Science
Volume	353
Issue number	6299
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf4481
Publication status	Published - 5 Aug 2016

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Animals
Ecosystem
Environment
Fishes
Light
Oceans and Seas

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