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English: Plate X: White Flamingoes, Red Flamingoes, The Skies They Simulate, painted by Abbott Handerson Thayer for the book Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom 1909. The image implies that flamingoes owe their colours to camouflage, a view derided by critics including Theodore Roosevelt.
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Source own scan of Plate X of Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom 1909
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Abbott Handerson Thayer  (1849–1921)  wikidata:Q306759 s:en:Author:Abbott Handerson Thayer
 
Abbott Handerson Thayer
Description American painter and naturalist
Date of birth/death 12 August 1849 Edit this at Wikidata 29 May 1921 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Boston Edit this at Wikidata Dublin Edit this at Wikidata
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Book was published in 1909

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