Why do animals use camouflage? Have you ever worn a disguise? Have you pretended to be someone else or something? Animals do this too. We call this camouflage. A camouflage animal uses different ...

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In the study of why and how animals look the way they do, color is king—at least, the range of color humans can see. A ...

Animals have evolved a range of camouflage tactics, from simple colour matching to ... corals and other objects on the sea floor. They do this by changing the size of special projections on their skin ...

Unlike iridophores, leucophores do not change appearance based on ... (2011) "Rapid adaptive camouflage in cephalopods." in Animal Camouflage: Mechanisms and Function. Cambridge University Press ...