# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugh-b-cott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:24:34.636Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugh-b-cott"
name: "Hugh B. Cott"
slug: "hugh-b-cott"
description: "Hugh Bamford Cott was a British zoologist, an authority on both natural and military camouflage, and a scientific illustrator and photographer. Many of his field studies took place in Africa, where he was especially interested in the Nile crocodile, the evolution of pattern and colour in animals. During the Second World War, Cott worked as a camouflage expert for the British Army and helped to influence War Office policy on camouflage. His book Adaptive Coloration in Animals (1940), popular among serving soldiers, was the major textbook on camouflage in zoology of the twentieth century. After the war, he became a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. As a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, he undertook expeditions to Africa and the Amazon to collect specimens, mainly reptiles and amphibians."
tagline: "English zoologist and camouflage specialist (1900-1987)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Hugh_Bamford_Cott.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1900-07-06"
deathDate: "1987-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Г'ю Бемфорд Котт"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump