CAMOUFLAGE
Issue No. 1 JULY 2020
CAMOUFLAGE
Any history of camouflage must properly start with ‘mother nature’. From wood ants to pufferfish and octopi to birds, a wide array of animals conceal themselves
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WARNING COLORATION
Some Frogs are known to use Discoloration to warn predators of their poisionous skin. It is both a warning and a protection mechanism.
Hunters use bright colors to warn other hunters that they are there. Like Frogs in the wild it is used for both a warning and protection.
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Deer cannot distinguish the color, but your fellow hunters can, and for that reason, wearing blaze orange helps enhance safe hunting. Blaze orange is also known as “safety orange” or “hunter orange”. T
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Hapalochlaena lunulata, also known as the Blue ringed Octopus uses its blue rings to warn predators of its toxicity
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MIMICRY
MIMICRY
Some bugs “mimic� their enviorments to complelty blend in as one of their surroundings and protect itself from predators.
Military snipers will often do the same and Mimic pies and plants from their enviorment to blend in and not be spotted by enemies.
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Environmental and behavioral factors cause species to employ a wide variety of camouflage tactics. Some of these tactics, such as background matching and disruptive coloration, are forms of mimicry. Mimicry is when one organism looks or acts like an object or another organism.
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BACKGROUND MATCHING
There are many different types of camouflage, this is an example of Background matching where the predator will imitate the background to blend in to hide from an unsuspecting prey. 3
This Butterfly uses a form of background matching to blend into the tree and hide from predators
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COUNTERSHADING
Sharks use a natural form of countershading. The upper part of their body is dark while the bottom is lighter to blend in with the light form above and the darkness of the ocean floor below.
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DISCOLORATION
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Discoloration is a form of camouflage used in the wild by animals such as Zebras to confuse their prey. Man has tried to recreate the same type of pattern for similar affects to no avail.
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