寒星物语

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Camouflaged Toads

Photograph by Christian Ziegler

This Month in Photo of the Day: Animals

Three leaf-litter toads collected within yards of each other almost disappear on a forest floor in Panama. Staying alive in the tropics, where nearly everything is food for something else, often calls for such trickery to fool a predator’s eye.

See more photographs from the August 2009 feature story "The Art of Deception."

译文：

伪装起来的蟾蜍

摄影：Christian Ziegler

本月每日一图的主题是：动物

巴拿马的一片林地上，相互之间近在咫尺的三只蟼掌突蟾几乎与环境融为一体。在几乎所有物种都是被捕食者的热带，通过这样的伎俩来欺骗捕食者的眼睛就显得非常必要。