This book provides facts about animals, such as stick insects, flat fish, and the leaf tailed geckos, who have external characteristics that allow them to blend into their surroundings. The book explains that some eggs or young offspring are protected by both their camouflage and their parents. The explanations of the quiz answers are found on the last page. In the section about camouflage for ambush, readers learn that lionesses take advantage of their cunning as well as their concealment when they move into the wind in their approach to their prey. The picture strip in this section shows how a trap door spider constructs its burrow with a hinged lid.
Readers can see how the spider leaps out of hiding and poisons a passing insect.
The book explains that the spider drags the prey into the burrow and shuts the lid so it can eat the insect in peace. The quiz question for this section asks if lions are the biggest cats.