12 Animals That Are Masters of Camouflage

Carpet Flathead

• Class: Fish
• Order: Scorpaeniformes
• Family: Flatheads
• Habitat: Indian Ocean, Red Sea
• Camouflage: Mimesis
  

A carpet in your lounge? That’s pretty normal. A red carpet at an awards ceremony isn’t too weird either. But a carpet in the sea? Er, not so much. But they do exist, even if you wouldn’t want to actually walk on them.

We’re talking about the carpet flathead, a crocodilefish, which spends its time on the sea floor flat as a rug. It has a skin flap on the edge of its body to hide its outline even better. Its camouflage makes it hard to distinguish it from rocks.

Trick: Disguises itself as the seafloor

Carpet Flathead - Photo: Jovana Milanko/Shutterstock

• Table of Contents:
• 0. Introduction
• 1. Denise's Pygmy Seahorse
• 2. Leaf-Tail Gecko
• 3. Indian Oakleaf
• 4. Carpet Flathead
• 5. Eastern Screech Owl
• 6. Mossy Frog
• 7. Ambon Scorpionfish
• 8. Common Baron
• 9. Mimic Octopus
• 10. Stick Insect
• 11. Tobacco Hornworm
• 12. Wolf Spider