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LEAF LITTER TOADS -(Bufo cf. margaritifer)  ©Christian Ziegler Three leaf-litter toads collected within yards of each other almost disappear on a forest floor in Panama. Staying alive in the tropics, where nearly everything is food for something else, often calls for such trickery to fool a predator’s eye. Other camoflage photos that you might enjoy: Leopard in Leaf Litter Moth nearly invisible on lichen covered tree

LEAF LITTER TOADS -(Bufo cf. margaritifer)  ©Christian Ziegler

Three leaf-litter toads collected within yards of each other almost disappear on a forest floor in Panama. Staying alive in the tropics, where nearly everything is food for something else, often calls for such trickery to fool a predator’s eye.

Other camoflage photos that you might enjoy:

Leopard in Leaf Litter

Moth nearly invisible on lichen covered tree

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