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		Army Military Combatives	Senegal, Africa
T-6 Texan in desert camouflage, Australia, 2005		Members of an American patrol, Battle of the Bulge, Luxembourg, 1944
Secretary Rice and soldiers	US Army M113A2 APC	French VBL, France, 2003	ARH Tiger helicopter
BMP-1 vehicle, Afghanistan	Bunker mit Tarbemalung	USS Paul Hamilton, 1945	USS San Francisco, 1944
HMS Furious, 1918	USS Killen, 1944	USS Bush, 1944