National Geographic is proud owner of some of the best photos in the world. Here and then a photo jumps out, containing an interesting effect which sometimes can be seen as optical illusion. Just check out this National Geographic tag, and you’ll be amazed how many illusions on this site are from NG. Anyway, today’s optical illusion was submitted by Urban Ambrozic and Grégory Plantard. We get many of “camouflage” illusions, but most of them don’t make it to the front page of Moillusions. This one however, took my attention. First I only saw one campuflaged toad – thought : “hm, its ok”, but after few moments I was able to spot the second and third one! How many of them are there?! Those three leaf-litter toads were collected within yards of each other, and its amazing how they almost disappear on a forest floor in Panama. For them to stay alive in the tropics (where nearly everything is food for something else), often calls for such trickery to fool a predator’s eye. Below the photo, you may see a gallery of few similar photos (by NG as well). Can you spot an insect hiding in each of them? Those little animals could very well put Liu Bolin and Emma Hack to a shame. Amazing!
Check out National Geographic’s gallery with more camouflaged insects:
actually i see 3 toads
three toads? maybe four? wow really good camouflage
lol awesome :D
They’re very well camouflaged :P
I see 3 toads
a brown one, gray and kinda sandy colored xD
I see 3
i see three camo-toads
camo-toads. that’s clever!
allot of the time i just go to the photo and try to work out the illusion without reading your post this being no exception, i didnt get it till i did read the post (how rude ;-) ) nature is good! nice one i like it!
omg i only saw one at first too until i saw wat u wrote and looked again and saw the other two
The toads are actually fairly easy to see…
that’s really cool. I only saw one at first too.
3 sapos
Three…. I think.
It can’t be that easy.
1st i rock i see 3 toads
Its green and …….. what is this.
it is a find the hidden objects illusion silly! :D
3 toads . one moth ?
I read the article in which most of these photos were shown in the Dutch version of the National Geographic Magazine. I think my favorite one is the photo of the two insects that look like leafs. They even have brown spots, edges that look like there has been eaten a little bit of them and little branches as legs.
utterly amazing shots!
I see 3 toads
Amazing!!! :-)
Anyone see the butterfly? At the top left, brown.
Okay, three toads, all good…
Going through the gallery..
What is meant to be in this picture?!?!
https://www.moillusions.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ng4.jpg
I think I see legs??
wicked!!!
i see four toads.
nice illusion….
the first thng i saw wer the four toads
i get it its a bunch of sckaderd levs that look like tods
I SEE MRER THAN 3
Wow that is neat! :)
3 [[:
i see uhhh… 3! i see three toads
huh…?
I see 4…at the top left corner there’s a REAL toad…its very tiny…
I see 3…not sure where the fourth is…and the center one i thought was a actual leaf for like..2 minutes
Three toads!
They’re pretty easy to see, but it’s still really cool that nature could produce something like that
normally i don’t leave comments on anything. however, of all the optical illisions i’ve seen, this one has been the most dissappointing. i spotted the three frogs right away including the moth.
I see 3 frogs in it
i wanna c the moth wherr is it??
3
this illusion su ALL OBEY THE CAMO TOAD
(HAD to be done)
i see five toads :)
4toads
Easy, i saw the toads imminently(3)