About Me: My name is Sami Kay. I'm a senior at Olathe North. I love to hang out with my friends and have fun. Hanging out with my friends mainly consist of me, Alex, and Leeya hanging out somewhere and showing our hyper sides. My fav spots to hang is at Leeya's house, Alex's house, or the skate park. My friends are my life. I'm around them all the time. But I'm doing this project for my student naturalist class. So yea....here it is....
Essay: Camouflage and mimicry are the two types of deceptive coloration. Deceptive coloration is when an animal uses its color to fool its predator or prey.
Camouflage helps prey hide from its predators. It is also use by predat
ors to sneak up on their prey. Animals that use camouflage often look like their surroundings. Some examples of those surrounding are rocks, leaves, grass, trees, and many other plants. Some animals often look like something not very interesting or dangerous. Animals with spots or stripes can blend in with their surrounding easier because they use their spots or stripes to hide in shadows. Some examples of these animals are tigers, lions, leopards, cheetahs, jaguars or zebras. Zebras are normally hunted mainly by lions and live in herds. So if the zebra stays in its herd and the lion get ready to attack one of the weaker zebras it is harder for the lion to figure out which zebra was weak because the stripes mix together and confuse the lion. Polar bears use the snow to blend in. 
Other animals that use camouflage very well are beetles, mantids, caterpillars, moths, snakes, lizards, and frogs. Red squirrels use a different type of camouflage. It is called counter shading, which means the fur on top of the animal is different than the fur on the belly. Red squirrels use the fur on top of it to blend in with the ground when its running around on the ground and the fur on its belly when it is up in trees to blend in with the sky. Penguins also use counter shading. Since they spend lots of time in the water they use the black feathers to hide from predators above the water and they use the white feathers to hide from the predators under the water. 
Mimicry is when an animal looks like another animal to scare off its predator. Plants also use mimicry. Batesian mimicry is when a harmless animal looks like a dangerous or poisonous animal. An example of this is how the coral snake and the king snake look alot alike but the coral snake is poisonous and the king snake is harmless. The viceroy butterfly and monarch butterfly is an example of Mullerian mimicry. Mullerian mimicry is where two species that are equal in toxins mimic each other to help each other. Aggressive mimicry is used by the angler fish to catch its prey. The angler fish wiggles things on it
s head that look like long antenna. When it does other fish think the antennas are
smaller fish and get closer to attack and that when they get eaten. Cryptic coloration is when an animal look so much like an object that its almost impossible to see the animal. Examples of this is the walking stick that looks like a twig, the katydid that looks like a leaf, and the praying mantis that can
look like a leaf and a twig. The eyespots on butterflies trick birds into thinking the butterfly is bigger than it actually is. This shows how animals use camouflage and mimicry to protect themselves.
Essay: Camouflage and mimicry are the two types of deceptive coloration. Deceptive coloration is when an animal uses its color to fool its predator or prey.
Camouflage helps prey hide from its predators. It is also use by predat
ors to sneak up on their prey. Animals that use camouflage often look like their surroundings. Some examples of those surrounding are rocks, leaves, grass, trees, and many other plants. Some animals often look like something not very interesting or dangerous. Animals with spots or stripes can blend in with their surrounding easier because they use their spots or stripes to hide in shadows. Some examples of these animals are tigers, lions, leopards, cheetahs, jaguars or zebras. Zebras are normally hunted mainly by lions and live in herds. So if the zebra stays in its herd and the lion get ready to attack one of the weaker zebras it is harder for the lion to figure out which zebra was weak because the stripes mix together and confuse the lion. Polar bears use the snow to blend in. 
Other animals that use camouflage very well are beetles, mantids, caterpillars, moths, snakes, lizards, and frogs. Red squirrels use a different type of camouflage. It is called counter shading, which means the fur on top of the animal is different than the fur on the belly. Red squirrels use the fur on top of it to blend in with the ground when its running around on the ground and the fur on its belly when it is up in trees to blend in with the sky. Penguins also use counter shading. Since they spend lots of time in the water they use the black feathers to hide from predators above the water and they use the white feathers to hide from the predators under the water. 
Mimicry is when an animal looks like another animal to scare off its predator. Plants also use mimicry. Batesian mimicry is when a harmless animal looks like a dangerous or poisonous animal. An example of this is how the coral snake and the king snake look alot alike but the coral snake is poisonous and the king snake is harmless. The viceroy butterfly and monarch butterfly is an example of Mullerian mimicry. Mullerian mimicry is where two species that are equal in toxins mimic each other to help each other. Aggressive mimicry is used by the angler fish to catch its prey. The angler fish wiggles things on it
s head that look like long antenna. When it does other fish think the antennas are
look like a leaf and a twig. The eyespots on butterflies trick birds into thinking the butterfly is bigger than it actually is. This shows how animals use camouflage and mimicry to protect themselves.
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