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| Spotted deer |
Many living creatures use colour to protect themselves from their enemies. The
spotted deer, for example, is almost
invisible inside the jungle; the sunlight shining through the gaps in the leaves has almost exactly the same colouring as the dear’s spotted
coat, and so the animal seems to become a part of the forest.A bird called the bittern has long white
streaks on its neck, which make it difficult to find when it is swimming among the reeds. In some other creatures, nature has designed a still more wonderful system of protective colouring: these animals change their colours to match their surroundings.This is how certain insects and tree lizards can move from green leaves to brown dried-up twigs without revealing themselves to their enemies.Some rabbits have brown coats in summer and, to match the snow on the ground, white ones in winter.
