Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

Can you see it? Hiding in plain sight there are two of the most stealthy creatures in the animal kingdom, almost impossible to detect. Thanks to the wonders of natural selection, these and other animals can avoid most predators and perpetuate their species. See if you can spot them all:

The two birds on that dead trunk are tawny frogmouths, a frogmouth species native to Australia, who look like this when they are not posing:

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

Here’s another one:

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

And another:

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

This is not a tawny frogmouth, but it has a frog mouth (because it is a toad):

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

Here’s another toad:

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

I’m still trying to detect it myself, to be honest. Maybe you can see them better here:

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

This owl is much easier to spot, but just because you are actually looking for it. In the open you won’t be able to detect it unless you were an expert field biologist.

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

Same with this one:

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

The same will happen with marine life. You can see them in these photos because you are looking for them in a limited space. But, as a diver, I can tell you it’s extremely hard to see some of them, specially some octopi. Or this stone fish:

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

A couple of cuttlefish:

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

And insects are excellent at this game too, from the classic stick and leaf insects:

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

To this invisible spider:

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

Or this amazing caterpillar:

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

And then you have some incredible reptiles:

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

Can You Detect The Stealth Animals Hiding In All These Pictures?

No matter how many video reportages and photos I see, nature would never cease to truly amaze me.


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