mimicry (biology)

Describes the many ways vulnerable animals protect themselves by making themselves difficult to see or mimicking better protected creatures.

Explains what camouflage and mimicry are, and looks at how they are used by different animals in the wild.

A brief overview of how different animals protect themselves through camouflage and mimicry of other animals.

Discusses how animals use mimicry and relationships to protect themselves from predators or to catch prey.

Profiles ten different animals on land and at sea who use camouflage to protect themselves from predators and hunt prey, describing how each animal's camouflage works and how it helps them.

Investigates that special type of defense that allows animals to evade enemies by means of camouflage or mimicry.

Discusses camouflage and the ways some animals use their color to hide from enemies including weasels who are brown in the summer and white in the winter.

A little girl describes all the things that her cat does to mimic her.

Text and photographs explore how animals use camouflage to survive.