AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Camouflage, also called cryptic coloration, is a defense or tactic that organisms use to disguise their appearance, usually to blend in with their surroundings. Organisms use camouflage to mask their location, identity, and movement. This allows prey to avoid predators, and for predators to sneak up on prey.

Detailed explanation-2: -Camouflage, mimicry, and animals’ body parts and coverings are physical adaptations. The way in which an animal behaves is an adaptation, too-a behavioral adaptation .

Detailed explanation-3: -In ecology, crypsis is the ability of an animal or a plant to avoid observation or detection by other animals. It may be a predation strategy or an antipredator adaptation. Methods include camouflage, nocturnality, subterranean lifestyle and mimicry.

Detailed explanation-4: -Camouflage is when animals blend in with their surroundings so they are not seen by other living things. Camouflage helps an animal to protect itself from predators.

Detailed explanation-5: -Concealing Colouration Few animals like the snowshoe hare, found in North American regions change their body colour to hide from its prey-lynx. These species are usually white in winter, and their fur changes to brown during summer by shedding their fur. Chameleons change their colour to hide and to reflect their mood.