?Phylliidae | Insect That Perfectly Mimics A Leaf

[Waindo]

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Leaf insects or walking leaves are some of the most remarkable leaf mimics in the entire animal kingdom. These insects take the appearance of a leaf to hide themselves from predators. They do this so accurately that predators often aren’t able to distinguish them from real leaves. In some species the edge of the leaf insect’s body even has the appearance of bite marks.

To further confuse predators, when the leaf insect walks, it rocks back and forth, to mimic a real leaf being blown by the wind.

Leaf insects occur from South Asia through Southeast Asia to Australia. At present, there is no consensus as to the preferred classification of this group, but they are generally treated as the Family Phylliidae.

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[Illuminater]

Some how some way Itachi takes an L from this.

 

[Jack Spicer]

 

[Nick01]

Cool.

 

[DominiqueX]

Nature is amazing <3
I've seen these animals myself (in a zoo) and had a very tough time finding them between all the real leaves. We also have a similar insect here in Germany too. It's a lot smaller, but it also looks like a leaf, but not as much as the one shown in the first post. It looks more like this right here:

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I LOVE this song!
I LOVE Legend of Korra!
I LOVE you for this, no offence!
Thank you, sir!
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[Alien X]

Insects and their camouflage....

 

[Waindo]

Yeah. Awesome beings.

 

[Akаsh]

Yeah. Awesome beings.

wow these are awesome @__@


btw, isnt there a stick insect as wwell?

 

[DominiqueX]

btw, isnt there a stick insect as wwell?

There is :>
The group is called "Phasmids".

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[Akаsh]

There is :>
The group is called "Phasmids".

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Ahhaa! I knew it =D
wonderful little creatures