Discover the secrets of underwater camouflage. How do animals change their appearance and magically vanish? Readers explore a variety of sea animals that can change color, create smoke screens, and disappear into a crowd.
Read about some of the ocean's most unusual animals and why they look the way they do. Learn about pufferfish that inflate themselves, frogfish that have hair, sea dragons that are not really dragons, and fish that fly.
Read about intriguing tricks and clever survival tactics of undersea creatures. Students learn the reasons behind such unusual behaviors as sleeping in cocoons, hitching a ride on larger fish, or sharing homes with blind shrimp.