STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY
JOEL SARTORE
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PATTERN
A crazy quilt of patches
covers a Masai giraffe’s
neck at the Houston Zoo
in Texas.
OPPOSITE: This scale-
covered pinwheel is a
veiled chameleon’s tail,
which the animal curls
into a tight spiral when
it’s startled.
SPIRALS. STRIPES. SYMMETRIES. THROUGHOUT NATURE,
PATTERNS HELP ANIMALS BLEND IN OR STAND OUT.
PHOTOGRAPHED IN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA (CHAMELEON)