"On 11 November in 1896, an American painter known for his society portraits and demure landscapes made an unusual appearance at the Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Abbott Thayer arrived at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology on Oxford Street bearing a sack of sweet potatoes, oil paints...
...writes Hanna Rose Shell in Cabinet Magazine #33 (posted with permission of author)...
"paintbrushes, a roll of wire, and two new principles of invisibility in nature that together formed his "Law Which Underlies Protective Coloration." In his afternoon open-air lecture, Thayer argued that every non-human animal is cloaked in an outfit that has evolved to obliterate visual signs of that animal's presence in its typical habitat at the "crucial moment" of its utmost vulnerability. According to him, all animal coloration was a function of this need to hide in the environment."
...writes Hanna Rose Shell in Cabinet Magazine #33 (posted with permission of author)...
"paintbrushes, a roll of wire, and two new principles of invisibility in nature that together formed his "Law Which Underlies Protective Coloration." In his afternoon open-air lecture, Thayer argued that every non-human animal is cloaked in an outfit that has evolved to obliterate visual signs of that animal's presence in its typical habitat at the "crucial moment" of its utmost vulnerability. According to him, all animal coloration was a function of this need to hide in the environment." Click to pop up -
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