Camouflage



Camouflage is one of the most effective ways for animals to avoid attack in the treeless Arctic. However, the summer and the winter landscapes there are so diverse that a single protecting coloring scheme would, of course prove ineffective in one season or the other. Thus, many of the inhabitants of the Arctic tundra change their camouflage twice a year. The Arctic- fox is a clear- cut example of this phenomenon; it sports a brownish-grey coat in the summer which then turns white as cold weather sets in, and the process reverses itself in the springtime. Its brownish-grey coat blends in with the barren tundra landscape in the months without snow, and the white coat naturally blends in with the landscape of the frozen wintertime tundra.