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Camouflaged Caterpillar

Location
Manu National Park, Peru
Photograph byChristian Ziegler

Description

These creatures can camouflage themselves to avoid being detected by other animals. Manu National Park, created in 1973 and a World Heritage Site since 1987, spans the whole basin of the Manu River, from cold grasslands above 4,000 meters down to the Amazon lowlands. More than 1,300 species of butterflies have been recorded there.

Christian Ziegler

The photographer

Christian Ziegler

Tropical biologist turned photojournalist for Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and NatGeo.

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OuiSi Nature card 206: Camouflaged Caterpillar. Photograph by Christian Ziegler The whole photograph behind card 206: Camouflaged Caterpillar. Photograph by Christian Ziegler

Camouflaged Caterpillar

Photograph by Christian Ziegler