What is camouflaging?

Answer 1

Camouflage (or cryptic coloration) is the process of blending into the background. It only works if the predator hunts by vision - animals who hunt by sound or smell are not fooled by camouflage! Many animals have color patterns which match the environment in which they live. If they freeze against this background, they blend in and are harder to see. Sound and smell are also used in camouflage.

Camouflage definition in terms of Nature: to hide one's true nature.

Camouflage comes in many forms;

Color matching :white polar bear on white snow,

Disruptive coloration: stripes on a tiger or zebra disrupt the outline.

Counter shading: sharks from above, dark colour blends with ocean, from below, pale belly blends with light streaming down.

(Transparent animals particularly aquatic, difficult to see in ever changing light)

Physical mimicry: Leaf insects, bird dropping Spiders, stick insects

Aggressive resemblance: Tiger moth caterpillars when startled rear up, to which their head looks like a snake, eye spots on butterflies. (Mainly scares bird predators)

Adventitious protection: Decorator crabs, caddis fly: attach debris to themselves, some hermit crabs attach living anemones as "bodyguards"

Variable protective resemblance: Cuttlefish, octopus, chameleon, able to change their colours via chromatophores in the skin.

Warning colors and protective mimicry: non toxic species using a toxic species' warning colours i.e paper flies look like wasps, milk snake looks like coral snakes.

Mullerian mimic: part of itself appears elsewhere: snake's tail loos like it's head to avoid the vulnerable real head being attacked.

Batesian mimic: (See coral snakes and milk snakes)

Dummies and false displays: Toads puff up to look bigger that they are or prey may face it's predator since a healthy prey needs more energy to kill and the predator may risk injury.

Behavior: Also used as camouflage: i.e. playing dead (oppossums, hogsnakes) staying still when coupled with colour camouflage.

Audio mimicry: some moths which taste horrid to bats make a clicking noise when bats come near, a 'tasty' species (Syntomeida epilais) mimics this noise to avoid being eaten by bats too.

Scent mimicry: carrion plants, lure prey/pollinators, newborn fawns have No scent to hide them from predators (as well as a color camo' fur pattern)
To alter appearance so as to blend with the surrounding envioronment, thus becoming more difficult to be seen.

Answer 2

Camouflaging is an adaptation wherein an organism blends into their environment to lessen the chance of being detected. Besides evolving a similar body colour to their surroundings or in some cases the ability to change colour, their body outlines are made less perceptable with patterns such as patches, stripes, blotches etc.

Answer 3

Camouflage is the art of making yourself, your pickup, and other things blend into the background that you are in, and become difficult to see. For instance, the bottom of a fishing boat might be painted light blue to blend into the sky background (From a fish's perspective),

Soldiers wear camouflage to blend into their surroundings, whether it be greens and browns when they are in the forest, to tans and creams for when they are in the desert. Submarines are painted a medium-dark grey to blend in with the ocean depths if someone on the surface is looking in the water to find them.