Nature's Sweet Lies: Camouflage and Mimicry

Camouflage and Mimicry

What mystery holds the fish' mimicry, 

camouflage and deceiving morphology?

Painting and Verse by Dr Abe V Rotor

Camouflage and Mimicry in the Sea in acrylic by the author, January 12, 2025

"Wonder if genes the source of similarity

and they too, the reason of trait diversity;

fish like seaweed, deep or floating at sea,

birds their wings like the leaves of a tree."

 

 

"Deceit and conceit in a duo,

Makes one believe or doesn't know

To accept things or analyze

Nature's own sweet and gentle lies." 

*Camouflage, also called cryptic coloration, is a defense or tactic that organisms use to disguise their appearance, usually to blend in with their surroundings. The primary difference between the two is that, with mimicry, an organism copies another organism or part of an organism, while camouflage involves the copying of some part of the environment.