Definitions
Animal that is eaten by other animals.
What is prey?
This insect, often found on trees, uses its body shape and coloration to look like a twig.
What is a stick insect or walking stick?
This type of camouflage involves an animal's colors matching its background to help it blend in.
What is concealing (blending) coloration?
These protect a zebra from predators.
What are stripes?
Besides hiding from predators, camouflage is also used by animals to do this.
What is sneak up on prey or to hunt?
Animal that hunts other animals.
What is a predator?
Some butterflies, like the viceroy, imitate the wing patterns of this poisonous butterfly to deter predators.
What is the Monarch butterfly?
A common type of camouflage for aquatic animals, where their belly is light-colored and their back is dark.
What is countershading?
What is a moth?
A flounder can change its skin coloration and pattern to blend in with this type of seabed, waiting for prey to swim overhead.
What is the ocean floor?
Blends in with its surroundings.
What is camouflage?
This nocturnal predator has mottled, grayish-brown feathers that allow it to disappear against tree bark during the day.
What is an Owl?
What is disruptive (patterning) coloration?
A squirrel is meant to blend in with this.
What is tree bark?
The Leafy Sea Dragon, a relative of the seahorse, has body appendages that help it blend in with this.
What is Physical Adaptation?
The non-venomous milk snake mimics the color pattern of this highly venomous snake to scare off threats.
What is a coral snake?
This fox is white in the winter.
What is an Arctic fox?
Quite the opposite of hiding, some animals that are poisonous or bad-tasting use this type of bright coloration to signal danger to potential predators.
Type of adaptation which includes migration and hibernation.
What is Behavioral Adaptation?
This intelligent animals mimics a variety of marine animals by changing its body shape, color and behavior.
What is an Octopus?
An animal using this type of camouflage makes itself look like an inedible object, like a stick, leaf or rock.
What is disguise or masquerade?
The leaf litter toad's splotchy brown skin blends perfectly with this.
What is the forest floor?
This is the name for the specialized pigment-containing cells that some animals, like chameleons and octopuses, use to change their color.
What are chromatophores?