Cuthill and colleagues (2005) conducted a field study designed to test hypotheses about the concealment effectiveness of different types of disruptive coloration. They expected all three of their different types of treatment stimuli to be equally camouflaged from the standpoint of background matching because
A) all of the prey items within each treatment type were of a single, monochromatic color, chosen from photographs of tree bark.
B) all of the stimulus prey types contained actual meal worms.
C) all three prey treatments were brown and black and had patterns derived from photographs of tree bark.
D) the same markings were used both on the edges of the wings and inside the wings of all types of the artificial prey.

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Cuthill and colleagues expected all three of their different types of treatment stimuli to be equally camouflaged because all three prey treatments were brown and black and had patterns derived from photographs of tree bark, which would naturally blend in with the background they were trying to match.

Cuthill and Colleagues (2005) Conducted a Field Study Designed to Test