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a caterpillar in Borneo
July 21, 2013

Caterpillar, Borneo

This Month in Photo of the Day: Animal Pictures

A lichen-colored caterpillar disappears into its surroundings in Sarawak, Borneo. Staying alive in the tropics, where nearly everything is food for something else, often calls for such trickery to fool a predator's eye.


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Photograph by Christian Ziegler, National Geographic

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