Familiar with the Game “Hide-and-Seek”? Watch and Learn How These Incredible ‘Masters of Disguise’ Hide From Their Predators

Can you recall playing hide-and-seek during your childhood days? It’s such a fun game. I remember how often we scratch and cut our skin from hiding in the bushes, how my heart thumps  in fear that the seeker would find me.

Looking at these pictures makes me think how clever these creatures are in trying to outsmart their predators.

These pictures show nature’s ‘disappearing act’ when enemies are near.

#1. A Speckled Sanddab which blends in with the pebbled ocean floor

#2. A Great Potoo which camouflages itself against a tree

#3. A Leaf-tailed Gecko which perfectly blends with brown leaves

#4. A beautiful Orchid Mantis sitting on a beautiful flower

 #5. A Bat-faced Toad resting on dead leaves

#6. A Mossy Leaf-tailed Gecko that is clinging on a tree

#7. A Leaf Sylvan Katydid which looks like the brown leaves

#8. A Lichen Spider which conceals itself on a bark

#9. A Willow Ptarmigan which hides in a brushy slope

#10. A Common Snipe which hides really well in the shoreline

#11. A Mealy or Blue-crowned parrot resembles itself just like another leaf

#12. A Leopard conceals itself in a vegetation at the base of a tree

#13. A Wolf which is peering out from behind a tree trunk

#14. A Nighthawk which blends into the surrounding rocks

#15. A male Spotted Deer which disappears among the sun-dappled vegetation

I know for sure you did enjoy searching for these hidden creatures. Now share this  wonderful photographs captured by Thomas Marent and Art Wolfe.