Thursday, June 23, 2011

6 Animal That Has the Perfect Camouflage Like Leaves

 6 Animal That Has the Perfect Camouflage Like Leaves
1. Katydid (Grasshoppers Leaf)
Grasshopper "Withered Leaves," below is an interesting creature, natural selection and evolution of these animals have been blessed with the ability to mimic the wilted leaves to outwit predators view.


2. Dead Leaf Butterfly
Dead leaf butterfly is amazing creatures to be observed closely. The specimen below illustrates the intricate details obtained by adaptation through natural selection, which is the driving force of evolution. Details of this extraordinary help butterflies escape predators by mimicking daunyang dead.


3. grasshoppers Worship
Praying mantis has a very unique camouflage. Not only to outwit predators, but he is also very clever fool potential prey. In addition to body shape that can resemble leaves or twigs, her body movements followed the movement of a twig or leaf in the wind.


4. Phyllium Giganteum (from Indonesia)
This insect has an elongated body, such as sticks and wings is shrinking or altogether absent. Insects do not have the tympanum and producing sound. This insect-eating plants are slow-moving, usually in trees or bushes, and is active at night (nocturnal).


5. Leaf Tailed Gecko
Often also called a devil tail gecko. This leaves geckos come from Madagascar. Gecko uses its tail to mimic a leaf or camouflage as a form of self defense.


6. Leaf fish
Fish of the Amazon river is actually shaped like a dead leaf, ranging from body shape to the movement that slowly oscillate with the flow in the river surface.

This leaves the fish-fish prey on smaller fish by attracting the attention of their prey through the organ in his chin that resembles a worm. If the prey has approached it with a super fast (less than a quarter of a second) he craned his mouth, sucking the victim and returned to its original position.

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