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Camouflage and Mimicry

Camouflage and mimicry are animal adaptations that help animals survive. Camouflage involves an animal's colors and patterns blending in with their environment to hide from predators. Mimicry is when a non-poisonous animal copies the appearance of a poisonous one to deter predators from attacking. The document includes examples of camouflaged animals hiding in photos and discusses how non-poisonous snakes and butterflies mimic poisonous ones through their patterns and colors.

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Camouflage and Mimicry
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?
Adaptations • Camouflage is a type of animal adaptation. • What is an adaptation? • An adaptation is something that helps animals survive better.
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.
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
Look closely to find this animal!
Look closely to find this animal! Deer!
Can you see the frog?
Mimicry • Animals may also try 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. Which snake is poisonous?
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 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!