Anti-Predator Adaptations
Adaptations which allow prey animals to avoid detection, deter predation, or distract predators. Including: camouflage, aposematic coloration (and mimicry), masquerading, and other methods.
Lisa Kimmerling created this list 3 months ago
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Trash Bug - Lacewing Larva Carrying Lichen Debris -
Spiny stick insect, La Isla Escondida, Colombia -
Ligia oceanica - dark -
Viceroys -
White Thorn Mimic Treehopper, La Isla Escondida, Colombia -
Large green Stick insect, La Isla Escondida, Colombia -
Haemodiasma tessellata, La Isla Escondida, Colombia -
Haemodiasma tessellata - side view, La Isla Escondida, Colombia -
Haemodiasma tessellata - head, La Isla Escondida, Colombia -
Bark or bug? -
Poison Dart Frog -
The next step -
Championica montana -
camouflage at its best -
Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti) -
Pygmy Seahorse, camouflaging in its Gorgonian Fan home -
Túngara frog camouflage, Uraba, Colombia -
Glass Anemone Shrimp (Periclimenes brevicarpalis) - male -
A Kinabalu Sticky Frog (Kalophrynus baluensis) hiding in the leaf litter -
Xenia Soft Coral Shrimp - Alcyonohippolyte commensalis -
Can you find me? -
Mimic Octopus - Thaumoctopus mimicus -
Spilomyia diophthalma - a beautiful hoverfly -
Burnet moth hanging on to a flower