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Spider-tailed horned viper is a rare and highly venomous snake that uses its tail as bait for birds. The tail with which she waves looks like a spider, and the viper itself blends with the landscape (www.youtube.com)

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The Buff-Tip Moth: the resting posture, shape, and color/pattern of the buff-tip moth allows it to mimic a broken birch twig; the moth's buff-colored head and the patches on its hindwings even resembl (lemmy.world)

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This moth from the genus Phalera looks like a fragment of twig complete with chipped bark and even the layering of wood tissue at the “cut” ends... perfectly resembling a broken piece of wood to avoid (www.reddit.com)

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Sorry for the reddit gif link, I couldn't upload the gif to imgur for some reason

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juvenile Laniocera hypopyrra instinctively mimics a poisonous caterpillar when it senses a predator nearby (i.imgur.com)

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Uropyia meticulodina moth looks like a dead leaf (i.imgur.com)

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Urutau bird camouflage (i.imgur.com)

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Ant spider. Observe how it waves around its “feelers” which are actually front legs (i.imgur.com)

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