BR 2-21 ANIMAL DISGUISES

    I read "ANIMAL DISGUISES", so I will tell you about the story. Many animals use color as a disguise to hide an enemy. This is called camouflage. The tawny frogmouth is hiding from the fox. The tawny frogmouth is the same color as the tree it is sitting on. It wants the fox to think it is part of the tree. Some animals are hunters. The tiger is a hunter. It uses its color to hide in the bushes. The carpet shark is also a hunter. It is the same color as the sea bed. It uses its disguise to catch little fish that do not see it hiding in the sea bed. The tiger and the carpet shark use color as a disguise to help them catch their food. Animals use disguises to  trick other animals. When zebra stay in a group, they look like one really big zebra to a lion. This makes the lion stop and gives the zebra time to get away. Some animals can change their disguise. The chameleon can change its disguise. It can change its color from black to brown, yellow, green, blue or red. Some animals disguise themselves as something else to trick an enemy. The stick insect looks like a stick. The leaf-tailed gecko looks like a leaf. People also use disguises. These soldiers are hiding from an enemy. They have on the same colors as the bushes around them. This is called camouflage.

Fast Forward text by Alan Trussell-Cullen. First published in 2007

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