Young #frogs may #camouflage selves as animal poo
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-young-frogs-camouflage-animal-poo.html

From #masquerading to blending in: ontogenetic shifts in antipredator #camouflage in Wallace’s #FlyingFrogs https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-023-03376-w

"To test their hypothesis that the frogs were trying to escape predators, the researchers created differently colored wax frog models and placed them in the zoo's rainforest house."

Young frogs may camouflage selves as animal poo: study

The young offspring of a frog native to Southeast Asia display an "unusual color pattern", probably to camouflage themselves "as animal droppings" to escape predators, according to a study.