coloration

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Coloration can help animals blend into their surroundings to avoid predators or attract a mate and can even be linked to physiological properties conferred by pigments.

From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2024

Coloration is extremely important to animals, playing roles that range from camouflage to communication.

From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2022

The varied registers in "The Coloration of Feathers" are interesting.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2012

Coloration of the skull shows that the fire was hot enough to burn the entire face and destroy the small bones there, said Joel Irish, also of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2011

Coloration essentially as in Lepus callotis except that nape is plain buff, without a trace of black, and upper parts paler, more vinaceous buff.

From A Synopsis of the North American Lagomorpha by Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)