![]() Some animals use flashes of colour to divert attacks by startling predators. Animals use colour to advertise services such as cleaning to animals of other species to signal their sexual status to other members of the same species and in mimicry, taking advantage of the warning coloration of another species. Camouflage enables an animal to remain hidden from view. There are several separate reasons why animals have evolved colours. The spotted tail and fin pattern of the sweetlips signals sexual maturity the behaviour and pattern of the cleaner fish signal their availability for cleaning service, rather than as prey Bright coloration of orange elephant ear sponge, Agelas clathrodes signals its bitter taste to predators ![]() A brilliantly-coloured oriental sweetlips fish ( Plectorhinchus vittatus) waits while two boldly-patterned cleaner wrasse ( Labroides dimidiatus) pick parasites from its skin. ![]()
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