Thread by @Alex_Verbeek

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1. Both predators and prey animals use camouflage to their advantage.

Prey animals blend in with the background, so hungry predators pass right by them.

🧵 Start of a thread with some amazing videos on #Camouflage.

I like this one. 🙂

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2. But predators use camouflage too.

The striated frogfish (Antennarius striatus) walks the seafloor right up to its unsuspecting prey.

It has a prognathous mouth that launches an attack on prey in as fast as 6 milliseconds.

🧵 #ocean #fish #nature

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4. The California halibut (Paralichthys californicus) can change the color of their skin pattern to better camouflage with the substrate they’re resting on.

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#oceans #California #fish #wildlife #NaturePhotography #video

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5. This one is amazing. Watch until the end.

This is a stargazer, its eyes are on top of its head.

They bury themselves in the sand, using their spotted camouflage to disappear among the textured bottom.

#nature #wildlife thanks: @LaurelCoons

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7. Hi, latest subscriber (yes that is really you), if you are still on #Twitter and read this: thank you so much. You made my day!!! 😊

Back to camouflage: look at this roadrunner in New Mexico. You can hardly see it if it doesn’t move.

#birds

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8. Now this thread can go in two directions after the roadrunner: not moving, or the theme of birds’ camouflage.

On birds: These are European Golden Plover eggs in the nest.

For not moving as camouflage stay with me on this thread.

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10. Sloths are masters in slow moving; combined with camouflage it helps to survive.

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