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The Most Extreme: Disguise episode on the animal planet channel featured the top 10 animals that are masters at disguise.
  1. mimic octopus
  2. walking sticks don't just look like twigs
  3. leafy sea dragon
  4. caterpillars
  5. hognose snakes plays dead, even emitting a smell that can trick flies
  6. decorator crabs attach pieces of their environment to their exoskeletons
  7. banded sea snakes create optical effects when they swim
  8. Arctic foxs change their coats for the winters (heavy white) and the summers (thinner brown/black)
  9. lyre birds can vocally mimic any other bird and thing, even chainsaws and gunshots
  10. snow leopards' pattern lets them blend in with their environment
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