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[TheHag]

[Sharon]

Camouflage is one of the adaptation skills animals have adapted as a major means of survival. In nature, every advantage increases an animal’s chances of staying alive, and therefore its chances of reproducing.

Here you can see how animals can blend in with their environment using sophisticated camouflage in accordance with a change in their surroundings. Predators can be deceived and even put off as the animals resemble something dangerous or uninteresting. Yet at the same time, it can enable predators with camouflage technique to successfully hunt for prey.

1. Great Grey Owl (Northern Hemisphere)


2. Giraffe (South Africa)


3. Willow Ptarmigan (Europe/USA/Canada)


4. Children's Stick Insect Tropidoderus Childrenii (Austrailia)


5. Long-Eared Owl (Europe/Asia/North America)


6. Stick Insect (Europe/Australasia/USA/Canada)


7. Spider (species not given)


8. Toad (species not given)


9. Adelpha Serpa Caterpillar (USA/Mexico/South America)


10. Seahorse (species not given)


11. Uroplatus Geckos (Madagascar)




12. Hedgehog - no need to ever camouflage against cacti but nice pic!


13. Stone Flounder (Northwest Pacific)


14. Frog (species not given)


15. Owl in stealth mode


16. Katydid (any of various green insects of the family Tettigoniidae related to the grasshoppers and the crickets)


17. Indian Leaf Butterfly (Asia/Japan/India)


18. California Ground Squirrel (Western USA)


19. Common Baron Caterpillar (Indai/Southeast Asia)



Some others:
http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...ronment-93019/

[Faline]

Awesome :)

[knuggy]

beautiful

[Bastet]

Utterly marvelous! Believe it or not, but I had the hardest time trying to spot the giraffe. It took ages!

[Cassius]

I always like animal where's Waldo.

[Soar]

Beautiful pics!

[kellyhound]

that long eared owl

[Darkest Angel]