How does body color protect reptiles from their enemies?

Numerous creatures play find the stowaway. Reptiles stow away from their adversaries by mixing in with their environmental factors. Many have a body tone like their environmental elements. The american plant snake look and behaves like dormant twigs, plants or creepers. At the point when you contact the snake , it drops to the ground and lies there like a dead twig. Different snakes likewise attempt this stunt. Coral snakes and some other moved their tails. So they resemble their heads.

Green Vine Snake

 A few reptiles can change their shading to match their environmental elements. A reptile might be dull colored when it lives on dim soil , and light colored on light soil. The green Lizard is an incredible model. Three sorts of old world geckos consolidate shading and structure to get away from the eyes of their adversaries. They have extraordinarily straightened bodies and tails, and bark like shading designs. Normal defensive shading is known as camouflage.

Camouflage

It is said that some reptiles are expert mimics. Have you ever seen a mimic intimate someone else and make people laugh? some reptiles are expert mimics, but they do it for a serious reason - to save their lives. 

The harmless milk snake, has the banded appearance of the poisonous coral snake. This mimicry happens in areas where the two live together. Outside these areas , the milk snake doesn't look much like a coral snake.

Texas Coral Snake

Mexican Milk Snake

The non poisonous Mexican king snake looks like the coral snake , when young. A harmless snake may look like a poisonous snake. This is Batesian mimicry. So, enemies mistake the harmless reptile for the poisonous one, and leave it alone. The scientist, H.W Bates discovered this mimicry over one hundred years ago.

Blind legless lizards that live under the ground trick their enemies by displaying their tail. The underside of their tails is usually red or yellow in color, and looks like an open mouth. The enemy attacks the tail, mistaking it for the head. The tail can withstand the injury better than the head, and the life of the lizard is saved. 

Legless Lizard

Lizards may have a tail differently colored from the rest of their body. When the enemy attacks them, they break off their tail. The tail jumps about on the ground, confusing the enemy, and helps the lizard to make good its escape.

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