Camouflage

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Camouflage is the method which allows an otherwise visible object to remain indiscernible from the surrounding environment. Examples include a tiger's stripes and the fatigues of a modern soldier. Camouflage is a form of deception.

[edit] Camouflage in nature

See also Category:Animal camouflage

  • Dead Leaf mantis

  • Infant cuttlefish

  • Striped pyjama squid, Australia

  • Uroplatus sikorae (Gecko)

  • Cicada on a pine tree

  • Grasshopper on a rock

  • Tawny Frogmouth blends in with colour and texture of tree bark

  • Two stone flounders (Kareius bicoloratus) blend into their environment.

  • Kakapo Pounamu, camouflaged on a shrubbery.

  • A flounder camouflaged on gravel

  • two minutes earlier

  • two minutes later

  • Rosalia on a crack in the wood

  • Protective Mimicry Among Insects

  • Lizard merges into the background earth

[edit] Camouflage in military

  • German flecktarn camouflage

  • Camouflage desert pattern on Russian T-shirt

  • Zeltbahn tanwaterpattern1944.jpg

    Zeltbahn tanwater pattern of 1944

  • Zeltbahn tanwaterpattern1943.jpg

    Zeltbahn tanwater pattern of 1943

  • British DPM -95

  • Camouflage (cloth)

  • Sniper

  • Marine sniper, Ghillie suit, 1988

  • US Marines in camouflage

  • Finnish Soldiers Skiing.jpg

    Finnish Soldiers in the snow

  • British soldier during Operation Desert Shield, 1991

  • Stretcher

  • Man of the House, 2005

  • Image1107curved-knee.jpg

  • Army Military Combatives

  • Senegal, Africa

  • T-6 Texan in desert camouflage, Australia, 2005

  • Chinese soldiers poorly armed.jpg

  • Members of an American patrol, Battle of the Bulge, Luxembourg, 1944

  • Maskowanie.JPEG

  • Secretary Rice and soldiers

  • US Army M113A2 APC

  • French VBL, France, 2003

  • ARH Tiger helicopter

  • BMP-1 vehicle, Afghanistan

  • Bunker mit Tarbemalung

  • MG Bunker der Anlage Fuchsegg

  • USS Paul Hamilton, 1945

  • USS San Francisco, 1944

  • HMS Furious, 1918

  • USS Killen, 1944

  • USS Bush, 1944

  • AvTrFlu Piraim (U-29)

[edit] Editions

  • copied cover. The former Nazi-German propaganda was replaced by Soviet propaganda for German soldiers, 1941

  • Cover copied from a German law, now containing the first en:Red Army Faction manifesto by the then imprisoned lawywer en:Horst Mahler, 1971

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