Zebras stripes all blend together/silhouetted in a herd, the predator has to really work at identifying which animal or part is connected with which stripe ensemble to set up his attack. They all melt together, next time when you see a herd look at it from the cats point of view.
If you look at older WWI and WWII naval B&W newsreels you will see many ships with extremely large sections of "camoflage" now this was before "radar" and such, imagine in a strobing cannonades of flashes and trying to ID an aiming point on or just a part of a ship, gets confusing doesn't it. Now do it with ships in a line, 3D same as the zebras stripes.
Know when to move, how to move and where to go almost like a chameleon rocking back and forth lulling its prey into false security.
I stopped wearing camo when hunting and even started to wash my clothes differently with no "brightners" in the soap and using natural scents native to the area.
So effectively the lion or other predator thinks its confronted by one huge amorphous animal? I was watching on tv where the small fish kept in a group and the pike had the same problem understanding where to attack
It interst me (as a visual artist) that the dazzle patterns you refer to were conceived and desigend by fellow artists, based on observation and insight into visual perception etc. I saw those pics many years ago and always thought since then how could
that act as camo cover, just looked like something inbetwen picasso cubism and Ken Noland hard edge abstarction?? If your trying to determine the trajectory/range for shell fire, if the dazzle camo fools you that the ship is closer or further than it really is, the artillery shot would not hit the target, is that the case? I even saw one original design where they put 2 ship silhouetes onto the side of 1 bigger ship
That would explian why they changed the patterns from time to time before the enemy got to know the real deal from aircraft spying etc??
Did you hear about the british magician as fooled the german's during ww2 that there was whole groups of tanks and other piece's etc when they were just plywood cut outs (like hollywood western store fronts) Jasper maskeleyne They sucessfully introduced confusion into the enemys minds as regards allied intentions
I liked what you said risclean about instantly staying still if you surprise an animal, its like that isnt what theyexpected? I saw another big frog yesterday, I noticed it only when it moved (IE it caught my attention "out the corner of my eye"), and even then my eye was drawn to the bold yellow stripes along its head and body I didnt really notice its outline.
who moved first the unter or the quarry??
cheers Jopnathan
But then I was asuming the predator animal's see the same way as human's :notworthy , I now get the idea thats not the case 
Was the countershading concept in mind when they painted spitfir's etc pale underneath and camo'd above?
