To survive in nature, many animals develop their capacity to mimicry with the environment. To find out how these animals camouflage, Terra Natura Benidorm has made a programme of entertainment activities planned for Carnival focused in the different techniques of mimicry adopted by the animals, there will be talks and explanatory posters. The celebration of Carnival will be next Saturday, February 10th .
Through the talks offered by the educators, we will learn the different techniques adopted by the animals to camouflage like the way they change of colour to imitate other poisonous animals, the simulation of “playing dead” so that predators don´t eat them or the adaptation of coloration in the skin so it resembles the environment. The Carolinian ducks, for example, during the breeding season they have flashy feathers and afterwards they change it into subdued colours to be less showy and to mimicry with the environment.
To camouflage with the environment, tigers do it perfectly thanks to the stripes of their fur. In addition, in the back of their ears they also have white spots that look like eyes (ocelli) and is useful to frighten their possible attackers. The appearance of crocodiles is not the result of chance, their grey color makes them go unnoticed under the water and their thick scales are confused with trunks, so that their prey is not aware of their presence.
Terra Natura Benidorm will also organize a Carnival contest in the amphitheater located in the Asian area and a Carnival makeup workshop. For this day, entertainment will be completed with the puppet show ‘A New World’ and ‘The Lost Puppet’, the birds of prey show and the feeding time of elephants, tigers, deers and mouflons. Visitors can enjoy other experiences such as the donkey ride, the fairy school and the Discovery elephants.
Visitors will be able to find out why the skin color of rhinos, dholes, otters, barasinghas, dromedaries, elephants or flying foxes are the way they are. Lions, for example, like other species, have brown fur to go unnoticed between the ground and the vegetation of their ecosystem. On the contrary, white-handed gibbons have that colour to be seen by the rest of their congeners among the dense thickness forest.

HORARIO ACTIVIDADES, SÁBADO 10 DE FEBRERO: