A leaf insect, a peacock flounder, and a pygmy seahorse are examples of animals whose bodies blend in with their surroundings.

The blue-ringed octopus is usually well-camouflaged since it has special skin cells, which can change colour to mimic sand, rocks, corals and seaweed.

A peppered moth blends in with its surroundings as it has wings that look like the bark of a tree

The stonefish looks like a stone so that it can eat unsuspecting fish who swim past it.

Sea slugs eat orange daisy corals. As they eat the corals, they absorb their colouring. The sea slugs become the same colour as the coral, which makes them hard to see - and keep them from being eaten themselves.

The veiled chameleon has a green base colour, often marked with stripes and spots of yellow, blue and orange. It can change its colours rapidly to blend easily with its surroundings.

Many parrots are bright green to easily blend into a leafy backdrop. Others have multiple colours to blend in among the colourful flowers, fruits and berries that form a part of their homes.

The caterpillar hides behind a branch or within the folds of a leaf so that it is less easily spotted by its predators.

Some animals protect themselves from predators by looking, sounding, smelling or acting like other organisms. This is known as mimicry.

A Syrphid fly looks like a honeybee. Birds stay away from honeybees because they are afraid of getting stung. Therefore, because of the fly’s mimicry, birds don’t eat it.

The peacock butterfly’s blue eye-like spots fool a predator into thinking it is attacking a much larger animal.

The spots on the wings of the owl butterfly resemble the eyes of an owl. Its predators are likely to mistake it for an owl which feeds on them, and thus avoid the butterfly.

Monarch butterflies have substances in their bodies that are bad tasting to predators. The Viceroy butterfly is adapted to look like the Monarch butterfly. Animals that avoid the Monarch butterfly will tend to avoid the Viceroy butterfly because they look alike.

The harmless kingsnake looks like the venomous coral snake. The red bands on the coral snake’s body are next to the yellow bands, while the red bands are next to black bands in the case of the kingsnake.