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Learn About Camouflage and Mimicry in Animals

Discover how animals use colors and patterns to blend into their surroundings through adaptations such as camouflage and mimicry. Find hidden critters and learn about mimicry examples like the Scarlet King Snake and Viceroy butterfly.

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Learn About Camouflage and Mimicry in Animals

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  1. Camouflage and Mimicry

  2. Camouflage • Have you ever wondered why animals have spots, strips, or certain colors? • Sometimes an animal’s colors can be a difference between life and death. • Animals use their colors to blend into the environment. • What is this called?

  3. Adaptations • Camouflage is a type of animal adaptation. • What is an adaptation? • An adaptation is something that helps animals survive better.

  4. Find the critters! See if you can find the camouflaged animals in these pictures. The animals you are looking for are a deer, frog, and quail. Quail

  5. Look closely to find this animal! Deer!

  6. Can you see the frog?

  7. Mimicry Which snake is poisonous? • Animals may adapt using a phenotype to look like another animals. • For example, non poisonous snakes will rattle their tale and flatten their head to look poisonous to a predator. • This is called mimicry, where an animal tries to mimic or copy another. Scarlet King Snake Hint: "Red on yellow, kill a fellow. Red on black, won't hurt Jack."  Eastern Coral Snake

  8. Other forms of mimicry… • Another example of mimicry involves the Monarch butterfly, which is toxic and very nasty to eat. Its bright orange coloration is a warning to birds to leave it alone. • The non-toxic Viceroy butterfly (bottom pic) has developed colors and wing patterns that are very similar to those of the monarch and so most birds won’t take a chance by taste-testing it!

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