If animals are color blind, why do hunters wear camoflauge??

Answer 1

Ugh, my head hurts after reading some of the answers here.

If you look at the hunting camo, depending on its intent, it's leafy, grassy, and/or tree patterns in random combinations.

Its all about BREAKING UP THE SHAPE OF THE HUMAN FIGURE!

I can not believe no one has said that, considering its the right answer. Take for instance the US Military's new "digital" camo -- I don't know of any place digital blocks blend in... The idea isn't to make the wearer invisible by looking EXACTLY like the background. The ACTUAL idea and reasoning is to fool the eye, and break up the outline of the person.

That is why most camo is RANDOM patterns... The best camo is random small bits of different colors all over the place. You will NEVER match your surroundings exactly - so the idea is to blend a mix of surrounding earth tones, in order to break up your figure and meld with the surroundings.

The eye of humans and most animals can't pick up random patterns easily.. Hunting camo depending on where you live, with a green background, and random leaves, tree bark, and the like will break up your figure and make it harder to see you.

Its easy for animals (and people of course) to pick out a human shape -- but when its a green, brown, and gray blob, in green, brown, and gray surroundings, it makes it that much tougher.

So now you know about camoflage... No BS...

Answer 2

Good question, and mostly good answers. Birds are not color blind, and deer can actually see blue as well as the neutral tones. The pattern helps to break up your outline so that they do not see a solid human form. All animals react to movement. If you stay perfectly still it doesn't matter what you are wearing they won't see you as a threat. The camo helps to minimize our movement. And it looks really cool and makes us feel like men, I'm not sure why the countless women hunters that I know where it, I guess they want to feel like men too.

Answer 3

Even if they are color blind, they still see a big solid colored shaped thing that isn't normal for the woods. And not all animals you hunt are color blind, but I'm assuming your talking about white tail's (turky can see color and also see at X10). That's why they make break-up fluorescent orange, so that it's not a solid odd shaped object standing out from in the middle of a tree.

Answer 4

hi there,if you will go out and look for a farley thick bush and just stand there and really look at it for 5 minites on a breezy day , soon you will notice you are seeing nearly all of the colors in the spectrom, a camo suit is made to a specific standard for a specific type of forest, you can even get them in corn field. now when you hit the bush with the proper get up , the human shape is disguised by the different patches of colors and light spots.hopfully a deer will think it is looking at bush moving in the breeze,as you make the movments nessesary for your shot,,,hope this helps

Answer 5

Oh, you didn't hear? Its a fashion thing. LOL!

Seriously, not all animals are color blind. I've deer hunted in bright red coveralls and as long as I've not made any abrupt sound or movement, deer pretty much have ignored me. Turkey and wild pigs are more discerning of color and that is where camo would come in handy.

H

Answer 6

Colorblind Animals

Answer 7

Not all animals are color blind. Camoflage is meant to break up an object's or person's figure.
A big deal when your bow hunting or going for turkeys

Answer 8

its more with the leaf-like pattern - not so much color - they could use red camoflauge, i guess and still get away with it. The leaf-like patterns are so they can "blend in" versus being obvious as a person.

Answer 9

I have asked the same questions to all of my friends who are hunters. They told me it was to blend their shape with the trees and bushes. With the different coloration when you move they think a bush is blowing in the wind, if you move slowly. My response is why green then why not yellow.

My opinion is that it is to hide from the game warden, or they really want to play Army.

LT

Answer 10

Because the shapes & shades help them blend with the leaves better & make them look not solid, helping hide movement. They also wear bright orange vests, as deer can not see orange, but it is very well seen by other hunters!