Eli5 How do animals and insects get so specific with their camouflage?

Question

Like dry leaves or shapes of animals. How do they know what to mimic??

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Answer 1

They all looked different, the ones that didn’t look so similar to their environment were extra good at dying, and thus extra bad at having babies that looked like them. So the more you happened to look like your environment, the more likely you were to survive long enough to have babies that looked like you. Rinse and repeat