- published: 22 Apr 2016
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In ecology, crypsis is the ability of an organism to avoid observation or detection by other organisms. It may be either a predation strategy or an antipredator adaptation, and methods include camouflage, nocturnality, subterranean lifestyle, transparency, and mimicry. The word can also be used in the context of eggs and pheromone production.
There is a strong evolutionary pressure for animals to blend into their environment or conceal their shape, for prey animals to avoid predators and for predators to be able to avoid detection by prey. (Exceptions include large herbivores without natural enemies, brilliantly-colored birds that rely on flight to escape predators, and venomous animals that advertise with bright colors.) Cryptic animals include the tawny frogmouth (feather patterning resembles bark), the tuatara (hides in burrows all day; nocturnal), some jellyfish (transparent), the leafy sea dragon, and the flounder (covers itself in sediment).
Crypsis may occur in a variety of ways, each of which causes the organism in question to blend with its background in at least one of the senses, although visual crypsis is the best known.
Prolonging your endless agony on Earth*
Cheap perfume does not hide
The smell of death that surrounds you
The solution to your endless agony on Earth
Hop right in, it's time to take a hellride
Drooling and shitting, shit and drool
Smell of death
Drooling and death, death and drool
Smell of shit
Wagon packed with corpses
Faeces, puke and fat
Wagon packed with corpses
Grease and loose skin
Wagon packed with corpses
Dementia and brain death
Wagon packed with corpses
Filled with the stench of death
Puking and shit, stool and puke
Aura of death
Shitting and puke, puke and stool
Put them to death
Wagon packed with corpses
Faeces, puke and fat
Wagon packed with corpses
Grease and loose skin
Wagon packed with corpses
Dementia and brain death
Wagon packed with corpses