Eliminating shadow vs countershading

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Hi, thanks for your interest in camouflage. Shadow means the shade cast (on the ground, etc) by an object; countershading is a system of coloration to eliminate the appearance of self-shading (which always occurs), whereas shadow elimination actually covers the shadow by reshaping the body; these are distinct mechanisms. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:19, 4 August 2019 (UTC)Reply