Camouflage
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Camouflage is a set of methods of concealment that allows otherwise visible animals, military vehicles, or other objects to remain unnoticed by blending with their environment or by resembling something else. Examples include a leopard's spotted coat, the battledress of a modern soldier and a leaf-mimic butterfly. Camouflage is a form of visual deception; the term probably comes from camouflet, a French term meaning smoke blown in someone's face as a practical joke.
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See also
- Active camouflage
- Animal coloration (including mechanisms of colour production in animals)
- Antipredator adaptation
- Aposematism
- Mimicry
- Military camouflage
- Motion camouflage
- Ship camouflage
- Underwater camouflage and mimicry
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