Sunday, August 8, 2010

Comouflage & Mimicry by Mr. Green Cricket

Camouflage and mimicry are adaptations some animals use as protection from predators. An animal that uses camouflage looks like things in its environment. It might look like a leaf, a twig, or a rock. Animals that use mimicry use colors and markings to look like another animal.

That is what Mr. Green Cricket doing. They just look like the green leaf where both of them perch. I almost overlook them for my first glance but then i realize there was something on the leaf. 

Just looks like the green leaf. The coloration is really similar. 

However, i only got the chance for about two minutes to captured their photos. This two is the best that i can get. They really gave me their best pose. Enjoy their photos. Till then. 

3 comments:

Ari said...

Hi Rose, thanks for visiting my blog and also your very encouraging comments, actually I started bird photography just a couple of months ago and surely have a lot more to learn, by the way your images are wonderful, can't believe that you're not using a DSLR! Keep posting....

arinaturephotography.blogspot com

Bornean Rose said...

Ari--No problem. I like your blog too. Lots of beautiful photos of wildlife/birds. Keep it up!

Mr. Smiley said...

Hi Rosa
That's katydid in the subfamily Phaneropterinae. But which genus? Who knows? The Malaysian orthopteran fauna is rather poorly known with many new species to be described.

By the way, I'll be giving as talk to the Sabah Society http://thesabahsociety.com/blog/talks/sabah-society-talk-the-sea-bajaus-of-semporna/1561/ in Kota Kinabalu on 28 October. The topic will be on my recent trip to New Guinea. Hope you can come.

Good luck with your blog.
Dave Rentz