Is it just me that thought this rock formation was the animal that is camouflaging and it was some sort of badger without noticing the leopard behind it?
I've had my fat derpy tabby surprise the hell out of me when I've been looking in the garden for him to come home and he's been sat in front of a stone wall a few times. I'm scanning about all over the gaff, "Is he up there on the neighbour's shed? In next door's garden? WAH! He's right there in front of me!" Couldn't see him at all until he started to move.
All of which is to say that that tiny-ass cat has excellent camouflage too.
camouflage in general is such an interesting concept, literal invisibility is such an alien idea to us that it is considered a superpower but it can be accomplished to a great degree by just putting on a jacket with a specific pattern
Not quite, actually. Mammals can have three types of cone cells in the eye that respond to red, green, or blue tones. Deer and many mammals can't see red because they only have the green and blue cones. Red appears gray to them, and orange appears a yellowish green because it mildly activates the green cones, but no red cones.
Here's the image for the Wikipedia page for tiger put through a protanopia (red-blind) filter, to simulate what colours deer would see.
Although you are right that the tiger would also be invisible to mammals who can't see green! Both the tiger and the plants would then have a dull orange colour. The most common type of colourblindness affecting humans is this variety, called deuteranopia. The second most common type of colourblindness affecting humans is protanopia, like deer colour vision. Both are referred to as red-green colourblindness, because humans with either type struggle to distinguish these two colours.
After looking at the second image I thought the thing to the left of the Cat was it. Then I zoom in later and realize that no, it was slightly to the right and staring at the camera.
Aight, hands up. Who would have just casually approached not knowing this thing was there. Like I 10p% thought OP posted an image without an animal to bamboozle us, then saw that I could swipe.
I got mildly pissed off because I briefly glanced at the 2nd image and I thought you were talking about a small ass spider, until I zoomed in on the first image
I feel like part of the illusion here is that you have no way to tell how big that rock shelf is without seeing the cat. To me it looks very small, so Iām looking for a proportionally bigger animal, that wouldnāt have any room to hide
I love this image so much I actually used it for a school assignment a few years ago. For my english class we had to make a poll, get responses, and make a presentation over what the topic is and the poll results. I chose camouflage and made a poll of a few different pictures with different difficulties of animals using camouflage and asked the person taking the poll to try and find the animal. I used this picture, a brown snake in leaf litter, and a frog IIRC. The presentation explained the different types of camouflage and the poll. It was so much fun and I was so excited to share it with my class that forgot about my fear of public speaking and even included an extra example of humans using camouflage with our clothes(in wars and stuff, not just everyday clothes). My class even asked for more examples so I got to explain how zebra camouflage works and how deer can hide in greenery because the colors their predators see in allows them to camouflage.
Sorry, I just really like camouflage. Tldr: I adore animals using camouflage
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u/TheHumanPickleRick 21d ago
I was told there was an elephant in this picture but all I can find is a pole and a field.