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 |
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Zeltbahn tanwater pattern of 1944 |
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Zeltbahn tanwater pattern of 1943 |
 British DPM -95 |
.jpg) Camouflage (cloth) |
 Sniper |
 Marine sniper, Ghillie suit, 1988 |
 US Marines in camouflage |
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Finnish Soldiers in the snow |
 British soldier during Operation Desert Shield, 1991 |
 Stretcher |
 Man of the House, 2005 |
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 Army Military Combatives |
 Senegal, Africa |
 T-6 Texan in desert camouflage, Australia, 2005 |
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 Members of an American patrol, Battle of the Bulge, Luxembourg, 1944 |
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 Secretary Rice and soldiers |
 US Army M113A2 APC |
 French VBL, France, 2003 |
 ARH Tiger helicopter |
 BMP-1 vehicle, Afghanistan |
 Bunker mit Tarbemalung |
;0559003.jpg) USS Paul Hamilton, 1945 |
.jpg) USS San Francisco, 1944 |
 HMS Furious, 1918 |
 USS Killen, 1944 |
 USS Bush, 1944 |
