[NatureNS] Batesian Mimic - got me

Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:12:23 -0300
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Almost as bad as a friend of mine who removed a coyote from a snare, 
and thinking it was dead, slung it over his shoulder, only to have it 
run away when he put it down.  He also taught biology!
Billy


+On 22 Sep 2014 14:59, Phil Schappert wrote:
> At 12:48 PM -0300 9/22/14, Randy Lauff wrote:
>>Likely, you've heard of the mimicry between the illness inducing 
>> Monarch and the perfectly edible Viceroy. This is an example of 
>> Batesian mimicry, where the mimic is not harmful, but benefits from 
>> looking like it is.
>
> Often, all is not as it seems at the best of times, Randy, especially
> with the Viceroy mimicry system. See, for example, David Ritland's
> paper (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00328409) on the
> unpalatability of the mimetic Viceroy in comparison to its purported
> model, the Queen, in Florida.
>
> Phil
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