Editing Deception (section)

=== Appearance ===

==== Mimicry ====
In the biological world, mimicry involves deception by similarity to another organism, or to a natural object. Animals for example may deceive predators or prey by [[visual]], [[Sound|auditory]] or other means.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/science/mimicry | title=Mimicry &#124; Definition & Examples &#124; Britannica }}</ref>

==== Camouflage ====
{{Main|Camouflage}}
[[File:Young red necked wallaby.jpg|thumb|upright|This [[wallaby]] has adaptive colouration which allows it to blend with its environment.]]

The [[camouflage]] of a physical object often works by breaking up the visual boundary of that object. This usually involves colouring the camouflaged object with the same colours as the background against which the object will be hidden.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/camouflage | title=Definition of CAMOUFLAGE }}</ref>

[[Military camouflage]] as a form of visual deception is a part of many campaigns.

==== Disguise ====
{{Main|Disguise}}
Disguises are used to create the impression of a false appearance.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disguise | title=Definition of DISGUISE }}</ref> A seventeenth-century story collection, Zhang Yingyu's ''[[The Book of Swindles]]'' (ca. 1617), offers multiple examples of the bait-and-switch and fraud techniques involving the stimulation of greed in Ming-dynasty China.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-book-of-swindles/9780231178631|title=Book of Swindles|publisher=Columbia University Press|date=September 2017 |isbn=978-0-231-54564-8 |last1=Zhang |first1=Yingyu }}</ref>