Scientific Information On Camouflaging

     Many are familiar with the Darwinist theory and how it took 150 years for reasearchers to test hypotheses after hypotheses to finally make it a theory. For those that dont know, the Darwinist theory is about animals that evolve according to their fitness and physical traits that allows them to surpass different competitors in their eco-system. For instance, there are animals that seek food better than others, animals that walk faster than others, and others that develop claws to climb trees. But what I'm focusing on are camouflaging animals. Camouflaging animals have come to be some of the most succesful and versatile species on Earth. Thanks to their "blending with the environement" ability they can avoid being preys and become predators. How many of these species actually camouflage? About every other specie can use some sort of camouflaging ability to blend themselves into the environment and that is due to the Darwinist theory, survival of the fittest.
       There are 4 types of camouflaging abilites that many different animals use. These abilities are called concealing coloration, disguise, disruptive coloration, and mimicry. Concealing coloration involves animals that use coloration to blend in with their eco-system's background color. This is the most common type of camouflaging and its seen in many different animals. Disguise camouflaging involves animals that use a "disguise" or costume to hide from their predators and look like other objects in their environment. You may have doubts between concealing coloration and and disguise camouflaging as they are similar. You can clear your doubts by asking yourself, does the animal blend in with his habitat with his color and shape? If the animal simply blends with his habitat with his color, then he uses concealing coloration. But if the animal blends with his color AND shape, the animal is using disguise camouflaging.
Disruptive coloration involves animals that take advantage of random and different colors that tend to confuse people and animals. Animals that tend to use disruptive coloration use stripes, spots, or other patterns in order to conceal themselves in their environment. Mimicry camouflaging is the most interesting and complex of all the camouflaging abilities. Mimicry involves animals that can "copy cat" or imitate unappealing animals that repel predators. It is hard to distinguish animals that are using mimicry unless you figure out information about countless species. These animals are nicknamed impostors in the animal world.
There are many animals that use concealing coloration, such as snowy owls and snow shoe hares in the Artic where these animals can blend in with the surrounding snow. Since these animals are as white as snow, predators have a hard time finding their preys around all that snow. Scorpions and different type of snakes can use concealing coloration in the desert because of their tan and brown coloration that can help them blend in the sandy environment. Disguise camouflaging is commonly used by insects, such as walking sticks, leaf insects, and katydids. These insects simply turn into a branch or appear to be leaves, letting them off the hook of predators.
         Disruptive coloration is commonly found in animals, such as zebras, leopards, tigers, etc. Zebras use their stripes to dazzle their predator, making them really hard animals to pray on. On the other hand, tigers and leopards use their spotted coats to help them camouflage in tall grass allowing them to hunt effectively. Mimicry is really rare because it is hard for humans and animals to detect which animal is which. Animals that use mimicry are Viceroy butterflies, the hawk moth, and the Scarlet king snake. The viceroy butterfly mimicks the traits of a monarch butterfly, an extremely poisonous butterfly. The scarlet king snake copy cats the traits of a coral snake, a poisonous snake. The hawk moth copy cats a snake with its two false eyes on his head, intimidating its predators. As you may see, these animals copy cat different harmful animals in order to intimidate their predators.
         This ability to disguise yourself in your environment and be able to lure predators away doesn't apply to just one type of animal. Actually, about every animal has the ability to camouflage into their environment. Think about the animals that inhabit our preserved nature trail. Iguanas could easily blend with their green environment using concealed coloration. A group of centipedes in the nature trail just huddle up in the bark of a tree using disguise camouflaging. I've even seen walking sticks and leaf insects that hide from us using disguise camouflaging. What's so beneficial about this camouflaging ability is that animals are safe from predators like humans. We tend to overwhelm our environment with the use of our heavy machinery, destroying wildlife and habitats that nuture countless species. But animals are safe from us with their camouflage. Camouflaging is so great that it may save species from extinction at some extent. Endangered species can hide from their predators and reproduce at a rate that will save the species from the brink of extinction.
         Even humans have realized how important camouflaging is, and you can see that in the military. Men camouflage with clothes and paint that blends with the environment in which they are. We have come to realize that camouflaging is something necessary for us and for animals to practice. It teaches you how to become stealthy, puts you safe against predators, and most importantly lets you survive against other fit species. According to Charles Darwin's theory, animals have to some extent adapted to their environment with some unique physical characteristics. That's how every species has survived till this moment and take advantage of this crucial advantage.