| Show Flounders Flounder's Eye Enables s It To Take on oD Neutral Color Studies of the winter flounder prove that the eye ye of this fish i ithe is the organ which enables it to take on the color of f the he sea sea bottom on which it lies in iri order to deceive prey When the head of the fish was placed against a black background background background back back- ground its entire body turned very dark and vic vice versa says Col Col- Col- Col tiers The uncanny ability of this fish to copy a varied background wa was also shown by putting it against a ablack at t black and and white checkerboard which it reproduced well enough to make itself indistinguishable a aa at ata a distance of ten feet |
