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Season 13
Episode 4
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Hide! 4 Tiny Animals That Go Undercover In Style
Season 12
Episode 15
Meet four of nature’s masters of disguise: decorator crabs stay out of sight with the latest in seaweed fashion; pygmy seahorses blend seamlessly with their surroundings; glasswing butterflies sport the see-through look; and the Australian walking stick keeps you guessing with its multiple secret identities.
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Barnacles might look like jagged little rocks, but they have a surprisingly wild sex life.
4:36
Honeypot ants stuff members of their own colony until they look like tiny water balloons.
4:25
What animal sprays acid that reeks of vinegar from its rear end? A vinegaroon, of course.
4:31
The cage fungus looks and smells like decaying meat — on purpose.
5:12
Subterranean termites fly off in swarms, and then drop their wings to start new colonies.
4:59
A twig is actually just one of many disguises for the Australian walking stick insect.
4:46
They might look like harmless grasshoppers, but locusts have an appetite for destruction.
4:58
A kissing bug gorges on your blood, plus it may carry a potentially deadly parasite.
4:38
Skeleton shrimp anatomy can be confusing, with their funky assortment of body parts.
4:42
Tadpole shrimp are a special type of time-traveling crustacean called triops.
3:30
The assassin bug commits murder by stabbing. But does this perpetrator have an accomplice?
4:26
Most damselflies prefer sun, but the quirky San Francisco forktail damselfly digs the fog.