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Camouflage is how an organism changes or develops a few unique characteristics to blend in with its surroundings. For instance, brown and light brown color mice resulted from camouflage.

When mice were subjected to different environmental conditions, they developed certain characters to blend and survive well in their surroundings. Thus, it gave two mice populations with varying coat colors, one dark brown and light brown.

In the experiment, dark brown and light brown mice were selected for the camouflage hypothesis, where an owl was the predator. Two enclosures were set up where one was a dark-colored enclosure, and one was a light-color enclosure.

The dark-colored enclosure comprises dark-colored soil. In this, dark and light-colored mice were subjected to the owl, and predation results were observed in full moonlight and under no moon.

The light-colored enclosure comprises light-colored soil. In this, dark and light-colored mice were subjected to the owl, and the results were observed in full moonlight and under no moon.

The data revealed that the predation level for the dark brown mouse was high under no moon than under full moon. On the other hand, the predation level of light brown mice was high in a dark-colored enclosure irrespective of the presence or absence of moonlight.

Thus, the contrasting color of mice due to the presence of light and dark coat color and the presence of contrasting background due to the full moonlight and no moon in the enclosure were unfavorable for both the mice color. These adverse conditions led to the high predation level of the mice in contrasting backgrounds.