Hugh B. Cott
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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.
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Disruptive coloration by Hugh Cott, from Adaptive Coloration in Animals (1940)![Two rail-mounted guns are shown in the photograph. A countershaded one camouflaged by Hugh Cott (above) and one in conventional style (below), August 1940[17]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Countershaded_Rail-mounted_Gun_Camouflaged_by_Hugh_Cott_1940.jpg/1280px-Countershaded_Rail-mounted_Gun_Camouflaged_by_Hugh_Cott_1940.jpg)
Two rail-mounted guns are shown in the photograph. A countershaded one camouflaged by Hugh Cott (above) and one in conventional style (below), August 1940[17]![Cott was critical of attempts at camouflage not based on "vigorous disruptive contrasts".[23] 1943 painting by Colin Moss of a cooling tower camouflaged with a landscape scene](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/The_Big_Tower%2C_Camouflaged_%281943%29_%28Art.IWM_ART_LD_3025%29.jpg/500px-The_Big_Tower%2C_Camouflaged_%281943%29_%28Art.IWM_ART_LD_3025%29.jpg)
Cott was critical of attempts at camouflage not based on "vigorous disruptive contrasts".[23] 1943 painting by Colin Moss of a cooling tower camouflaged with a landscape scene![Art with a purpose: Cott's invisible potoo, disruptively patterned[26]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/Hugh_Cott%27s_Drawing_of_Disruptively_Patterned_Potoo.jpg)
Art with a purpose: Cott's invisible potoo, disruptively patterned[26]Artists from United Kingdom 6
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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.
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