Camouflage - Camouflage By Crypsis

Camouflage By Crypsis

Crypsis means blending with the background, making the animal or military equipment hard to see (or to detect in other ways, such as by sound or scent: for details, see Crypsis). This can be achieved in many different ways, including:

• General resemblance to background
• Disruptive patterning (breaking up outline)
• Eliminating shadow
• Crypsis by behaviour
• Crypsis by changing skin pattern, colour
• Countershading
• Counterillumination

These ways of achieving crypsis are described below.