It has been suggested that bilateral symmetry may impose a cost for animals relying on camouflage because symmetric … color patterns might increase the risk of detection. We tested the effect of symmetry on crypsis, carrying out a predation … that symmetry may impose a substantial cost on cryptic patterns, but this cost varies among patterns. This suggests that …

lacking a plane of symmetry. However, it is plausible that the bilateral symmetry present in natural prey may compromise the … efficiency of disruptive coloration, on account of the potency of symmetry as a cue in visual search. In this study, we tested … bilateral symmetry. We found that symmetry reduced the effectiveness of both nondisruptive and disruptive background …