Transplanted eyes of foreign donors can reinstate the optically activated skin camouflage reactions in bilaterally enucleated salamanders (Ambystoma).

Bilateral enucleation immediately and irreversibly cancels the skin camouflage reactions of Ambystoma larvae. A heteroplastic eye transplant can reinstate the latter reaction. Recipients of a heteroplastic eye recovered the reaction as frequently and to the same extent as animals with one of their own eyes reattached.