A Rough Introduction to Selective Crypsis
From Wikipedia: In ecology , crypsis is the ability of an animal to avoid observation or detection by other animals. It may be a predation strategy or an antipredator adaptation . Methods include camouflage , nocturnality , subterranean lifestyle, and mimicry . Crypsis can involve visual, olfactory (with pheromones ), or auditory concealment. When it is visual, the term cryptic coloration , effectively a synonym for animal camouflage, [a] is sometimes used, but many different methods of camouflage are employed by animals. Wikipedia defines Crypto-Judaism as the secret adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith; practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Jews" (origin from Greek kryptos - κρυπτός , 'hidden'). The term crypto-Jew is also used to describe descendants of Jews who maintain some Jewish traditions of...