Sentence examples for by its colour pattern from inspiring English sources

This focal guppy was recognisable by its colour pattern (in males) or pigment patch on the caudal fin (in females).

Turkish Van cat, breed of semilonghaired domestic cat distinguished mainly by its unusual colour pattern: white, with coloured markings only on the head and tail.

It can additionally be identified by its dorsal colour pattern of ten dark brown saddles on a yellowish brown background.

But Quebec's government is standing by its colour discrimination.

We judge the bird by its colour.

Don't just choose a pouf by its colour.

Furthermore, about half the hybrids collected from the wild are backcrosses, identifiable by their colour pattern phenotype [ 35].

In reusing the four dummies, we reduced the risk of unsuspected heterogeneity among them (Wiley 2003), thus avoiding to introduce a potential bias in female preference induced by the colour pattern of a particular dummy.

To test how detection was influenced by prey colour pattern and visual backgrounds, we presented human 'predators' with images of black, grey or striped grasshoppers on computer screens against photographic samples of either unburnt, 50% burnt or completely burnt grasshopper habitats (for images of the different prey colour morphs and visual backgrounds see Figure  2, see also Methods for details).

These differences and the distinct morphologies indicated that several species were characterized by a similar colour pattern.

Over the 4 months of the experiment we had to replace several of the crabs that disappeared, and although several reappeared, they were distinguishable by their size, colour pattern and the colour of their sequin.