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Poems on the left give clues about the animals camouflaged on the right, in spectacular photographs by Dwight Kuhn.
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Color change is an important strategy for animals' camouflages, which allows them to match their body color with the environment [ 1].
This video provides a visual context for animal camouflage research: The BBSRC is experimenting by sending cameras to some of their BBSRC-funded researchers so they can record their experiences whilst pursuing research in the field -- gnarly roads, bush fires, biting insects, boomslangs and all!
The name "dazzle camouflage" was supposedly coined by artist and sailor Norman Wilkinson in 1918, but prior studies of animal camouflage yielded similar ideas.
Another form of animal camouflage uses bioluminescence to increase the average brightness of an animal to match the brightness of the background.
There are, as Julian Huxley remarks in his 'Introduction', references throughout the book to the human analogues of animal camouflage and concealment.
Thayer explains the principle of countershading with a diagram, arguing that a naive view of being "colored like their surroundings" does not explain how animal camouflage works.
The Thayers' views were vigorously criticised in 1911 by Theodore Roosevelt, an experienced big game hunter and naturalist familiar with animal camouflage as well as a politician, in a lengthy article in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.
"Camouflage," children ages 7 to 9 will learn how animals use camouflage through games, activitites and a hike.
Many animals use camouflage to avoid becoming prey, with markings that blend into the background so that predators cannot pick them out.
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