This is a Survival Habit That Anyone Can and Should Develop
Camouflage, also called cryptic coloration, is a defense or tactic that animals and humans use to disguise their appearance, usually to blend in with their surroundings. Camouflage is used to disguise location, identity, and movement.
Crypsis is simply blending into your surroundings to avoid detection and most humans would use cryptic coloration. In other words, mimic the colors that surround you.
Keep in mind that camouflage is also used by predators to sneak up on prey, or in some cases, camouflage allows predators to become static and wait for their meals on legs to wander by. Humans employ this tactic as well. A prime example would be snipers, who may lie undetected …show more content…
Camouflage is a science, as well as, an art form.
We will not delve too much more into the actual art of camouflage, but instead attempt to get you in the right frame of mind, to get you to think about your actions and how they might make it easier for someone to track and find you, and camouflage does play an important role in avoiding detection.
What we want to focus on in this article is your mindset, and how you can develop possibly life-saving tactics before you find yourself being pursued through the woods. Training, knowledge, and then the practical application of all that you know are your objectives. You are striving to reach the point where your actions are natural, instinctive if you will.
Get Out Into the Woods Do you tend to follow the path that someone else has already established? Marked trails are ideal for the novice hiker or outdoor enthusiast, but for someone that may worry about pursuers at some point, then a trail is, well a trail will lead right to you at some