Camouflage

Staff · Issue 74, Sep/Oct 2013 · pp. 4

Editorial Camouflage Mark Webster’s excellent cover shot is another example of how different UwP can be compared to conventional magazines but it also highlights something which the underwater world has in abundance compared to its terrestrial counterpart. True there are land animals which, because of their colour and markings, can blend into a background but there are only a few that can actually change colour to achieve the same effect and I don’t think they are as spectacular. Underwater we have numerous masters of colour change disguise including the amazing Mimic octopus which can look like other marine creatures and then there’s cuttlefish which can not only change colour but texture as well! Mark Webster’s scorpion fish is another good example followed by several flat fish yet at the other end of the spectrum, so to speak, we have some vividly coloured nudibranchs which, it is bel…