How do mimicry and camouflage help species survive?

1 Answer
Jun 20, 2016

Mimicry and camouflage both help in concealment. This may provide an added advantage to the organism in defending itself, or in attacking prey.

Explanation:

  • Camouflage helps an organism to blend in with the surrounding environment. Thus in arctic, predominant body colour of animals is mostly white. Likewise body colour of flat fish, stone flounder, resembles that of the ocean floor. Green body colour of grasshopper is also an example of camouflage.
  • In case of mimicry, the organism acquires a particular shape to imitate appearance of another organism or an inanimate object. For example- stick insect, that mimics a dry twig or palatable moths, which mimic unpalatable tiger moth.

A mimic may derive an advantage only when number of model is sufficiently large in its environment.

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