Now You See Me, Now You Don’t

These two pictures illustrate the way protective coloration helps to conceal wild creatures. The first picture shows two whitetail deer foraging in sedges in the dry river bottom along a portion of the Trinity river. The second picture shows one deer clearly, can you spot the second deer?

This demonstrates that uniform coloration can act to conceal an animal and accounts for the selection of these types of coloring over spots or stripes or something else.