How to vanish: A staring zoologist and the art of being...
Hugh Cott (Image WikiCommons) Cotts measuring a crocodile (Image WikiCommons) He then travelled South America and Africa, becoming fascinated by Nile crocodiles. But what’s really interesting is his abiding obsession with how not to be seen. This led him to develop the ground rules for camouflage. The word probably comes from camouflet, a French term meaning “smoke blown in someone’s face as a practical joke”. Although in the natural world camouflage is no joke but a matter of survival. Its dictionary definition is “a set of methods of concealment that allows otherwise visible objec...
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