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Why Does Every Animal Look Like This?
Join Joe Hanson as he explores curiosity and illuminates the science behind… well, everything.
Why Does Every Animal Look Like This?
Season 11 Episode 5 | 9m 10s | CC
In the race to survive, both predators and prey use visual tricks to get ahead. One nearly universal trick is countershading, a color pattern that helps animals erase their own shadows or blend into different backgrounds. It’s worked well enough that nature has produced this pattern over and over again, all over Earth, for at least tens of millions of years.
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