Think you’re good at hide and seek? Then think again, because as you can see from this list compiled by Bored Panda, these wild animals are the absolute champions when it comes to going undetected. You’ll never be able to beat these animals’ camouflage! It’s the simple fact that they have the biological advantage of blending in, also called mimicry, and this allows these smart animals to disappear into their environment to avoid being eaten by predators.
Caterpillars that resemble leaves and geckos the color of bark to spiders that look like sand and stick insects that look like, well, sticks – aren’t they truly amazing animals? These camouflage masters will confound and amaze you…but only if you can spot the animal mimicry virtuosos!
#1 Great Horned Owl
#2 Common Baron Caterpillar
Image source: Wohin Auswandern
#3 Leaf-Tailed Gecko
Image source: Thomas Marent
#4 Leaf-Litter Toads
Image source: CHRISTIAN ZIEGLER
#5 Wrap-Around Spider
Image source: Eine_Bier_Getrunken
#6 Pygmy Seahorse
Image source: Steve Childs
#7 Gray Treefrog
#8 Uroplatus Gecko
#9 Green Sea Turtle
Image source: fargioneorazio
#10 Tropidoderus Childrenii Or Children’s Stick Insect
Image source: David Midgley
#11 Wolf Spider
Image source: Piet Grobler
#12 Buff-Tip Moth
Image source: Сергей Таланов
#13 Snow Leopard
Image source: Raghu Chundawat
#14 Chameleon
Image source: oktt
#15 Great Gray Owl
Image source: Art Wolfe
#16 Mediterranean Octopus
Image source: Suljo
#17 Arctic Fox
Image source: Jim Cumming
#18 Stick Insect
Image source: phasmatodea
#19 Stone Flounder
Image source: domhyde
#20 Willow Ptarmigan
Image source: Art Wolfe
#21 Copperhead Snake
Image source: SssnakeySci
#22 Mossy Leaf-Tail Gecko
Image source: Jialiang Gao
#23 Red Bat
#24 Impala
Image source: Art Wolfe
#25 Katydid Or Bush Cricket
#26 Owlets
Image source: Lizard Martini
#27 Long-Tailed Potoo
Image source: Morten Ross
#28 Shimmery Sea Sapphire
Image source: New Scientist
#29 Longfingered Scorpionfish
Image source: Gavin Parsons
#30 Butterfly
Image source: Kay Muras
#31 Horned Lizard
Image source: Wild Horizon
#32 Glauert’s Seadragon
Image source: Kris Wiktor
#33 Flounder Fish
#34 Southern Pygmy Leatherjacket
Image source: Matthew Oldfield
#35 Mappet Leaf Moth
Image source: Thomas Marent
#36 California Ground Squirrel
Image source: Art Wolfe
#37 Leopard
Image source: Art Wolfe
#38 Peppered Moth
#39 Tree Snake
Image source: Amrinder Singh
#40 Leaf-Litter Mantid
Image source: CHRISTIAN ZIEGLER
#41 California Stick Insect
Image source: M. Muschick
#42 Mossy Leaf-Tailed Gecko
Image source: Thor Hakonsen
#43 Owl
Image source: Vladimir Popov / Uhaiun
#44 Camouflaged Looper
Image source: whereisthewine
#45 Leaf Insect Phyllium Giganteum
Image source: National Geographic Magazine
#46 Great Potoo
Image source: SUZI ESZTERHAS
#47 Horned Adder
Image source: Art Wolfe
#48 Ghost Pipefish
Image source: Ekkapan Poddamrong
#49 Cicada
Image source: Aisse Gaertner
#50 Lichen Spider
#51 Brimstone Butterfly
Image source: Christian Cadéré
#52 Peppered Moth
Image source: Ben Steeman
#53 Stealth Owl
Image source: P A B S
#54 Soft Coral Crab
Image source: Klaus Stiefel
#55 Moth
Image source: Veljo Runnel
#56 Copperhead Snake
Image source: roadhunter
#57 Adelpha Serpa Selerio Caterpillar
Image source: Art
#58 White-Tailed Ptarmigan
Image source: Art Wolfe
#59 Misumena Vatia Spider
Image source: Norbert Bernecker
#60 Crab Spider
Image source: Stoelwinder
#61 Stone Fish
Image source: Adam Ke
#62 Goldenrod Crab Spider
Image source: Henrik Larsson
#63 Toadhead Agama
Image source: Wolfgang Kaehler
#64 Grasshopper
Image source: skz87
#65 Great Rockfish
Image source: scubaluna
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