Nature is known to camouflage .
We all have seen arctic fox , that changes the colour of its coat . During winters , it turns snowy white , to blend with its icy surroundings, and during spring it has a mixed coat of greys , whites and blacks , to match its rocky surroundings , with rocks being exposed as the snow melts .
Everyone also knows about that giant called polar bear , which has only black eyes and claws , to tell it apart from the expanse of frozen white it inhabits.
Babblers , a group of noisy , chatty birds are dusty, greyish brown in colour , which merge very well with the dustbowls or grasslands they inhabit .
A grey brown squirrel is difficult to spot when it sits quietly on a tree trunk . There are rattle snakes that snuggle in sandy depressions on the desert floor , even sprinkling sand over themselves, in order to make themselves invisible .
Nature is also known to un-camouflage . An equal number of examples can be given of animals that have no qualms being the proverbial sore thumb . They stand out in a crowd , do not blend in , are noisy, where quiet would ensure survival , are slow where speed means life , and are garishly coloured , sometimes harshly so , where being mundane brown would have made blending and hence survival , easier/ surer.
There is a small , pretty bird , which is less famous than peacock or macaws. It is called the small bee-eater . The very name implying there must exist a bigger cousin of this bird , unknown to us. People who have seen the Dwayne Johnson movie "Journey to the mysterious island " will remember the cast of characters being attacked by a bird , while riding bees (for in the Jules Verne story , birds and bees are magnified , mammals dwarfed).That bird is a "small" bee eater.
It has a natural , exaggerated black mascara streak around its eyes, a lovely sky blue eyeshadow , bright green plumage , a needle sharp tail and a black beak . It may or may not have a redhead. It darts around and is totally visible , even as a streak of green in a dismally monochromatic scrubland.
Next of course are the showy dancers , over whom generations of poets have swooned, the peacock . Also the chattering macaws , the undisputed ,colourfully caped , noisy citizens of Brazilian rainforests.
We all have seen arctic fox , that changes the colour of its coat . During winters , it turns snowy white , to blend with its icy surroundings, and during spring it has a mixed coat of greys , whites and blacks , to match its rocky surroundings , with rocks being exposed as the snow melts .
Everyone also knows about that giant called polar bear , which has only black eyes and claws , to tell it apart from the expanse of frozen white it inhabits.
Babblers , a group of noisy , chatty birds are dusty, greyish brown in colour , which merge very well with the dustbowls or grasslands they inhabit .
A grey brown squirrel is difficult to spot when it sits quietly on a tree trunk . There are rattle snakes that snuggle in sandy depressions on the desert floor , even sprinkling sand over themselves, in order to make themselves invisible .
Nature is also known to un-camouflage . An equal number of examples can be given of animals that have no qualms being the proverbial sore thumb . They stand out in a crowd , do not blend in , are noisy, where quiet would ensure survival , are slow where speed means life , and are garishly coloured , sometimes harshly so , where being mundane brown would have made blending and hence survival , easier/ surer.
There is a small , pretty bird , which is less famous than peacock or macaws. It is called the small bee-eater . The very name implying there must exist a bigger cousin of this bird , unknown to us. People who have seen the Dwayne Johnson movie "Journey to the mysterious island " will remember the cast of characters being attacked by a bird , while riding bees (for in the Jules Verne story , birds and bees are magnified , mammals dwarfed).That bird is a "small" bee eater.
It has a natural , exaggerated black mascara streak around its eyes, a lovely sky blue eyeshadow , bright green plumage , a needle sharp tail and a black beak . It may or may not have a redhead. It darts around and is totally visible , even as a streak of green in a dismally monochromatic scrubland.
Next of course are the showy dancers , over whom generations of poets have swooned, the peacock . Also the chattering macaws , the undisputed ,colourfully caped , noisy citizens of Brazilian rainforests.
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