Choosing Camouflage Colours

Hogfish can choose which colour they change into

Albert Kok at nl.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons

Camouflage is a necessary survival strategy for a variety of living beings including people. Like hunters and soldiers.

Many of the animals that employ camouflage, do it to prevent being preyed upon and taken for some other animal’s dinner! Or use it to prevent prey from detecting them before they strike out…