camouflage (biology)

Examines how and why certain birds, insects, and mammals disappear by blending in with their backgrounds.

Take a nature journey and learn how different animals protect themselves from danger.

The reader is encouraged to find in the illustrations a variety of plants and animals from twelve distinct habitats around the world that use their shape and color to ensure their survival.

Journey around the world searching for animals camouflaged in their natural environments.

Describes the concept of patterns and provides examples through pictures of natural objects and animals, featuring spiderwebs, striped watermelons, snakes, rings of a tree, and more, and presents questions to encourage investigation. Presented in Spanish and English.

This book describes camouflaged animals, including frogs, zebras, leopards, hawk moths, deer, walking sticks, chameleons, cuttlefish, and decorator crabs.

This book describes animals called mimics, including hoverflies; coral, king, and milk snakes; monarch and viceroy butterflies; poison dart frogs; and moths, fish, and caterpillars.

Poems with clues prompt readers to guess the identities of ten camouflaged animals, revealed in gatefolds, and fact pages present information on each species, discussing their camouflage and life cycles.

Photographs and simple text introduce children to the ways different animals hide themselves in the snow.

Text and photographs discuss common garden insects and their protective appearence which includes camouflage, warning colors, copycat characteristics, and scary characteristics.