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How Animal Camouflage Works

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How to Determine Animal Camouflage

More than anything else, the environment will predict how the animal's camouflage will develop because what you want to do is blend into the background. The natural habitat that the animal lives in will become the model for the camouflage. And then there's two ways that color is produced here on planet Earth by animals: chemically or physically.

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