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How Animal Camouflage Works

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The Black-Bound Peppered Moth

Some mammals will change their coat. The animal senses the changing in the season because of the shift in daylight maybe, shifts in temperature and they'll release hormones. It's a sterling example of natural selection in practice, but it's based on camouflage. Soot produced during the Industrial Revolution made moths that had any white to them would stand out like a sore thumb.

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