Animal Camouflage

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Animal Camouflage

• Chasta Jenison
• Jaimee Kanasty

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Camouflage

• The way animals disguise themselves to blend
  into their surroundings.

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Many reasons for camouflage

• Way to survive
• Marine animals use colors and ability to change
  colors
• Warning
• Calling attention to themselves for mating
• Announcing social status
• Trickery
• Hiding among coral and plants
• Sneaking up on prey

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Marine Life

• Some animals can change color instantly to blend
  in with their background.
• Females are most blandly colored to be able to
  better protect their young.
• Males are often brightly colored to attract
  females for mating.
• Young fish are usually different colors than
  their parents so that they can travel freely away
  from the protection of their parents, among other
  kinds of fish and be unharmed.

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Marine life cont.

• Many fish travel in groups known as schools.
• Schools of fish can use themselves as well as
  objects around them to camouflage themselves.
• Much of marine life uses camouflaging when they
  are resting (much like humans sleeping).

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Ocean Objects/Life that Help Camouflage

• Sand Allows sea life to bury themselves in it
• Coral Reef Allows sea life to blend into its
  bright varied colors
• Plant/Vegetation Allows sea life to blend in, as
  well as hide behind
• Levels of Ocean Allows sea life to be
  camouflaged in the lighter and darker levels of
  the sea

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Countershading is a part of Camouflage

• The ability for fish life to disguise parts of
  their body according to the amount of light in
  the water/sea level

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Check out these websites, to practice camouflaging

• www.harcourtschool.com/activity/camouflage/marine.
  html
• http//dsc.discovery.com/convergence/beasts/hide/m
  edia/camouflage.swf
• http//www.eoascientific.com/interactive/animal_ad
  aptations_animals_which_camouflage/animal_adaptati
  ons_animals_which_camouflage.html

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Pictures found at

• www.photovault.com/Link/Animals/Aquatic/
  rCrustacia/Species/DecoratorCrab.html
• http//store1.yimg.com/I/fish2u_1766_24896097
• http//marinefisheries.org/FishID/flougulf.html
• www.askjeeves.com/countershading