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- evolutionary biology, mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species. Mimicry may evolve between...70 KB (7,696 words) - 14:33, 17 August 2024
- Peckhamian mimicry, has been suggested (after George and Elizabeth Peckham), but it is seldom used. Aggressive mimicry is opposite in principle to defensive mimicry...42 KB (5,001 words) - 08:07, 15 August 2024
- Batesian mimicry is a form of mimicry where a harmless species has evolved to imitate the warning signals of a harmful species directed at a predator of...28 KB (3,279 words) - 12:08, 9 August 2024
- foul taste, sharp spines, or defensive behaviour can make a species unprofitable enough to predators to allow Müllerian mimicry to develop. Once a pair of...33 KB (3,605 words) - 12:10, 9 August 2024
- Saddleback caterpillar (section Mimicry)the posterior of the Saddleback caterpillar. This is an example of defensive mimicry which can be seen in other moth species such as Deilephila elpenor...20 KB (2,226 words) - 16:11, 16 March 2024
- Anti-predator adaptation (redirect from Defensive adaptation)protection, food, and mating advantages. There are two classical types of defensive mimicry: Batesian and Müllerian. Both involve aposematic coloration, or warning...53 KB (5,778 words) - 12:39, 11 August 2024
- Ant mimicry Anti-predator adaptation Batesian mimicry Defensive mimicry Mimicry Srygley, Robert. "Incorporating Motion into Investigations of mimicry"....8 KB (1,009 words) - 00:39, 20 May 2024
- behaviour is not reported for the species in Britain. Another form of defensive mimicry that barred grass snakes demonstrate is the triangulation of their...14 KB (1,683 words) - 13:41, 21 May 2024
- Malaysia. Its petioles have numerous black spots; it is thought this is defensive mimicry, with the spots appearing to herbivores to be a swarm of ants guarding...1 KB (103 words) - 11:02, 5 August 2024
- mimicry in plants is where a plant evolves to resemble another organism physically or chemically, increasing the mimic's Darwinian fitness. Mimicry in...16 KB (1,835 words) - 12:12, 9 August 2024
- could be explained in at least three different ways. They may be a form of mimicry in which a spot on the body of an animal resembles an eye of a different...26 KB (2,976 words) - 11:46, 24 March 2024
- Bioluminescence (category Mimicry)genus Lucihormetica were believed to be the first known example of defensive mimicry, emitting light in imitation of bioluminescent, poisonous click beetles...75 KB (8,096 words) - 09:16, 17 August 2024
- large, globular abdomen and brownish cephalothorax. This is a form of defensive mimicry as the animals that prey on spiders pay little attention to bird droppings...25 KB (2,773 words) - 13:13, 12 April 2024
- In evolutionary biology, mimicry in vertebrates is mimicry by a vertebrate of some model (an animal, not necessarily a vertebrate), deceiving some other...27 KB (3,371 words) - 15:36, 13 August 2024
- occidentalis and related species are well known for their Mullerian mimicry. Mullerian mimicry occurs when species with pre-existing defenses adopt similar colorations...8 KB (844 words) - 23:24, 7 July 2024
- Viceroy (butterfly) (section Batesian mimicry)viceroy practiced Batesian mimicry, with the monarch and the queen serving as models. Batesian mimicry is a type of defensive behavior in which a palatable...22 KB (2,613 words) - 21:52, 3 August 2024
- Aposematism (section Mimicry)coloured. Müllerian mimicry has been implicated in the coloration of some Mediterranean nudibranchs, all of which derive defensive chemicals from their...52 KB (5,661 words) - 12:46, 11 August 2024
- Opiliones (section Aposematism and mimicry)Andrés; Rossini, Carmen; Eisner, Thomas (2004-03-01). "Mimicry: imitative depiction of discharged defensive secretion on carapace of an opilionid". Chemoecology...63 KB (7,008 words) - 13:38, 9 August 2024
- Predation (section Camouflage and mimicry)coloration, alarm calls and other signals, camouflage, mimicry of well-defended species, and defensive spines and chemicals. Sometimes predator and prey find...109 KB (11,575 words) - 09:14, 16 August 2024
- have eight phenotypically distinct and geographically limited Müllerian mimicry rings (Desert, Eastern, Madrean, Texan, Red-headed Timulla, Black-headed...20 KB (2,233 words) - 11:32, 4 July 2024
- Britannica, Volume 18 Mimicry by Reginald Innes Pocock 23881081911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 18 — MimicryReginald Innes Pocock MIMICRY, in zoology, the
- Robert Caserio recently said to me, “The whole profession has become a vast mimicry. The idea that there is open debate is an absolute fiction. There is only
- defense called Batesian mimicry. Batesian mimicry occurs when a palatable species imitates a non-palatable species. This type of mimicry is only successful