Camouflage, mimicry and crypsis are ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, and are used by children who feel insecure.

A sibling who feels vulnerable may mimic a sibling who appears less vulnerable.

Children condition adults.

Adolescent inebriety may be a deimatic display or, if persistent, Batesian mimicry.

For an adult, survival in a hostile environment requires camouflage, mimicry and crypsis, and the recognition that those around one may, like Iago, be using camouflage, mimicry, and crypsis.

Phonolocation, forced sneezes, face masks and nose picking, that is rhinotillexis, can be used to keep philistinism and pseudo-conversation at a distance.

Engagement before marriage is a period when camouflage, mimicry and crypsis can be explored.

Tennis players can choose the colours of their outfits with the colours of the court in mind; except at Wimbledon.

Beneath the disguise of “The Merry Monarch”, Charles II was an astute politician who shaped British history through his insistence that his nieces, Mary and Anne, were educated as Protestants, during a period when their father, James, Duke of York, was becoming Catholic, although Charles’ planned lineage was derailed by the rhesus incompatibility of William III and Mary II, and by Queen Anne’s autoimmune disease, presumably the result of molecular mimicry from childhood inflammatory disease; so, the succession passed to the patrofilially challenged Hanoverian line.