Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1918 — Natural Animal Camouflage. [ARTICLE]

Natural Animal Camouflage.

If you would study camouflage by land go look at the wild animals, says a writer. See how the tawny Hon and striped tiger are painted to resemble the tall, yellow bush grass of the jungle. The giraffe is painted with a. quaint diamond pattern exactly Uke the flickering Hghts among the acacia trees on which he feeds. The leopard, the jaguar and all spotted cats, the spotted deer, and the dappled horseare painted to Imitate light under a. shady tree. The pig is patched pink and brown like the sunlight, and the shadow of the denser woods. The-ele-phant is painted a hr. zy brown Uke the great trees of the deepest forest. So all the wild beasts are colored for concealment In their natural landscape, while many of them change their clothes with the seasons, wearing white for the snowy winters, brown for the torrid summer.