Did you spot the leopard? I’ll show the original photo and then, below that, the hard-to-see leopard.
Voilà!
Here’s the leopard!
September 29, 2019 • 11:00 am
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Near perfect camouflage. Not perfect though. You spotted it, didn’t you?
(The perfect camouflage for an elephant? Dark glasses.
You’ve never seen an elephant with dark glasses, have you? Perfect disguise/camouflage!)
It’ always good to look in the center of the photograph to see what the photographer saw.
I’m using this cheat. This was a hard one for moi.
Near perfect camo. The key in real life is movement (through evolution our eyes/brain detect even the slightest movement); felines, by nature & evolution, are very still and move slowly when stalking. But, you knew this already!
How is UofC Botany Pond at the moment Mallard Brad? 🙂
Amazing – had to figure out in the original photo even with the cheat, really needed enlargement.
“hard” to figure out
Isn’t that just dirt with spots on it?
I thought it was between the branches.
I thought it was above the real leopard staring at the camera near a light gray rock. Pareidolia.
That is incredible. Perfect colour matching.
I find it hard to see even when it’s pointed out.
cr
Even enlarging the marked photo, it was too low-density to be sure of anything.
That must be a problem at your end. The kitty is clear enough as you can see below in my pic:
https://flic.kr/p/2hog1mj
Yes but your pic just makes it clear (!) just how well the leopard’s camouflage disguises its shape and makes it blend into the background.
cr
I’d have sworn it was here (blue splodge!) …
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MYReiTbghQVf-HvYLYZueie6QxrbYcIw