Now, more than a century after it was put forward, the idea of being invisible is finally being tested. The findings have revealed surprising insights into how camouflage fools--or fails to fool--the eye of the beholder. In 1909, the prevailing belief was that animals hid themselves by matching their surroundings. Then the painter and naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer suggested a different mechanism was at work: highly conspicuous markings, such as the zebra's stripes and the oyster catchers black-and white plumage, are actually disguises.
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