The defense mechanisms animals use to evade or fight off predators can be both bizarre and fascinating. Some use camouflage ...

An astonishing number of insects have evolved survival mechanisms that involve mimicry, camouflage, and disguise. In the case of orange-and-black butterflies, the viceroy has evolved a striking ...

Just keep in mind two words: Camouflage and Mimicry. Almost every animal has a "predator" (some other animal who would simply love to eat it for dinner). So when it comes to surviving in the animal ...

The masked crab spider (Thomisus guangxicus) appears to team up to perfect their powers of camouflage mimicry. Environmental scientists Shi-Mao Wu and Jiang-Yun Gao of Yunnan University have ...

Mimicry in nature likewise can charm or repel ... Sometimes the deception serves as camouflage, allowing its bearer to elude detection by predators, prey, or quite often both: In Panama I found ...

Another way animals camouflage themselves is through mimicry. Mimicry means you pretend to be someone or something else. Crabs can use mimicry to blend in and avoid being detected by predators in ...

Animals have evolved a range of camouflage tactics, from simple colour matching to sophisticated mimicry. See if you can spot the creatures in the photos below - drag the slider to reveal them. Will ...

Leaf mimicry is a remarkably clever form of camouflage, allowing some animals to blend in as leaves to evade predators or to remain hidden as they wait for unsuspecting prey. This amazing ...

Audiences will be wowed by the mind-boggling examples of camouflage and mimicry and inspired by Bates' endless curiosity and determination to explore the wilds of nature from the time he was a young ...

813). Dealing with the imitation of inedible or distasteful by edible species (Batesian mimicry), and the resemblances between inedible models (Mullerian mimicry or synaposematism), he laid stress ...