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Cross country camouflage result
1st

We would give the Gold (fish) medal to the stonefish but we can't find him! He exactly copies the shape and colour of weed-covered coral. The trouble comes if you stand on him - the poison inside those painful spines can kill a human!

Stonefish
2nd

The sea dragon is a good runner up, changing its colour and using those graceful fins to look like seaweed.

Leafy sea dragon
3rd

The mackerel uses shading and shoaling in large numbers to fool predators but can't beat our winner, the stonefish.

Mackerel
4th

The shrimpfish also tries to look like something else - the long, sharp spines of the black spiny sea urchin.

Shrimpfish