Cryptic colouration, is another name for camouflage, a defence strategy that creatures use to disguise their appearance, or to mask their location, their identity, or movement. It both allows prey to avoid predators, and predators to sneak up on prey.
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Some of our residents are really quite hard to see. Here are some of the late DKG’s pictures of the well-camouflaged.
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A recent study has found that the best kind of camouflage, out there in the wildwood, is pretending to be an inanimate object.
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Cryptic colouration, is another name for camouflage, a defence strategy that creatures use to disguise their appearance, or to mask their location, their identity, or movement. It both allows prey to avoid predators, and predators to sneak up on prey.
Continue reading “Cryptic colouration”
Cryptic colouration, is another name for camouflage, a defence strategy that creatures use to disguise their appearance, or to mask their location, their identity, or movement. It both allows prey to avoid predators, and predators to sneak up on prey.
Continue reading “Cryptic colouration”
Some of our residents are really quite hard to see. Here are some of DKG’s pictures of the well-camouflaged.
Header picture: public domain.
Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve 