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

Trial and error, sort to speak.

An specimen develops a singular pattern, let’s say due to mutations, and that make it more successful at hunting/surviving, that allow it to mate more than others than have brighter colours or more simplistic patterns.

Repeating this over the generations drives the definition of a particular pattern.

I am not an expert but imagine a albino grizzle bear hunting more in the North Pole than its brown relatives. That fur colour allowed him to survive better then.

PS: Not an expert, please be nice.