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

Let’s say you have 10 marbles. 6 children come by and each selects their favorite marble. A marble maker comes and takes the four that were left and makes others similar to these. With 10 new marbles 4 are left and replicated. Each series the ones that are left are imperfectly replicated. The ones that are being replicated are the least favored, instead of the most. Now with animals and camouflage it is predators eating rather than children selecting, but the idea is the same. It isn’t by choice of the “camouflaged”, but the least favored by the selector that survive in this case.