Blink and miss
Blink and you might miss the bright yellow, penetrating eyes of a Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus, camouflaged behind a stand of dried grass on the ou Read More
Leaf it alone
Look again! What appears to be a bunch of leaves with a tender green leaf in the centre is… ta-da! a walking leaf insect! Belonging to the fa Read More
Spotted
Dead centre in the frame but near imperceptible, a common leopard Panthera pardus – one of the most elusive yet adaptable predators – su Read More
Almost invisible
This two-centimetre-long Denise’s pygmy seahorse Hippocampus denise, is a recently-described species of fish, found in Gili Meno, Indonesia! U Read More
Catch me if you can
Imagine you are a predator, a lizard or a bird in the Western Ghats, chasing a juicy, flashing blue butterfly when, like magic, it disappears from plain sigh Read More
Peek-a-boo
Some species, like this bark katydid from the Tettigoniidae family, use cryptic colouration to blend in with tree barks. Cryptic colouration helps break up t Read More
In your face
An elaborately laid pile of sticks, or a caterpillar? You decide! Belonging to family Psychidae, bagworm moth caterpillars are able to construct cases out of Read More
Watch where you step
Careful where you plant your feet in the leaf litter of the forests of the Western Ghats, for there lie barely visible, beautifully camouflaged, hump-nosed p Read More
Swinging away
The dried fibres of a grass blade swing in the wind, and with the threads sways a thread-like spider species (Ariamnes sp.) belonging to the Theridi Read More
Now you see me now you dont
With great camouflage comes the imperative of using camouflage well — cryptic colouration coupled with cryptic behaviour. This stick insect has somehow Read More
