Quote Originally Posted by infernalis View Post
Believe it or not, black is an excellent camouflage, heck most Thamnophis have huge amounts of black as the top side colour.

Sight depends on reflected light, black absorbs light.
It's actually not camouflage at all. Hence the stripe. And the other patterns.

Whatever the eye sees, it's the brain that interprets what it sees. A perfectly black object may technically be invisible in that it reflects no light, but the brain has no problem finding it.