Spectacular Animal Camouflage Pictures


A walking stick insect balances on a blade of grass over a coneflower


A goby rests on a soft coral in the Rainbow Reef in Fiji.


A boreal owl nests in a balsam fir tree.


Portrait of a snowshoe hare.


This frog is camouflaged in a frog pond in Costa Rica.


A southern stingray is cloaked in sand, possibly for camouflage.


Three-horned chameleons can change color. When angry or frightened, they tend to turn black.


The underside of this owl butterfly’s wing blends in with woody textures and features a large eyespot to startle predators.


A small shrimp hides among the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone.


Paradoxophyla palmata, a narrow-headed frog native to Madagascar. The frog’s brown and yellow coloring,­ as well as its rough texture, allow it to blend in
with the mud and tree trunks in its environment