protective coloration (biology)

Describes the camouflage patterns and other defense mechanisms of a wide variety of animals on land, in the air, and under water.

Readers learn about specific characteristics of animals that help to ensure their survival.

Text and colorful photographs reveal the remarkable ways in which insects, birds, fish, and mammals use color to avoid or to invite detection.

Discusses how animals, including butterflies, frogs, fish, and salamanders mimic other, more dangerous animals to keep themselves safe from predators.

Rhyming text and pictures demonstrate the camouflage nature provides in the coloration of birds such as the plover, bittern, and potoo.

Looks at how different animals use their colors for survival, camouflage, and/or communication, including horned lizards, poison arrow frogs, chameleons, tigers, and others.

Rhyming text and pictures demonstrate the camouflage provided by nature for birds such as the plover, bittern, and potoo.

Text and illustrations introduce the characteristics of a variety of animals whose coloration protects them from their enemies.

Rhyming text and pictures demonstrate the camouflage nature provides the python, iguana, chameleon, and other reptiles.

Rhyming text describes how various mammals camouflage themselves to protect against predators.