An example of the three typesof camouflage

There are four basic types of camouflage:

Concealing Coloration - when an animal hides against a background of the same color (polar bears, snowshoe hare, and arctic fox with white fur living in the Arctic).

Disruptive Coloration - stripes, spots, or other patterns an animal uses to make it hard for predators to their body outline (zebras, leopards, tigers living in grasses).

Disguise - like concealing coloration but the animal blends in with their surrounding by shape and texture rather than color (lizards with bumpy skin, octopus mimicking coral, walking stick insect).

Mimicry - animals mimic the characteristics of unappetizing animals (insect mimicking a poisonous bug, caterpillar designed to look like a snake).