How do animals develop camouflage, when they don’t know what other animals see?

Question

I’ve always admired the patterns of tigers, leopards, mantis shrimp, butterflies, etc. But I’ve always wondered how and why they become like that.

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Answer 1

Organisms do not deliberately evolve. Millions of years ago, butterflies may have had multiple different patterns and it’s the ones that blended in best who had the best shot at surviving and reproducing.