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Do a flower that look like a female bee us camouflage or mimicry?
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What is the difference between camouflage and mimicry?
Mimicry describes an animal who is behaving like another type of animal to throw off its predators. Camouflage describes an animal's ability to make itself look like something else to blend in with its surroundings.
A butterflyfish has spots near its tail that look like big eyes. Is this an example of camouflage or mimicry?
mimicry
What are not examples of mimicry?
Mimicry is the similarity of one species to another that can protect one or both of them from predators. Some examples of mimicry are bugs that camouflage themselves to look like leaves or bugs that look like sticks.
What is Difference between camouflage and mimicry?
Mimicry describes an animal who is behaving like another type of animal to throw off its predators. Camouflage describes an animal's ability to make itself look like something else to blend in with its surroundings.
What is a structural adaptation that enables one species to resemble another species' may provide protection from predators or other advantages?
Entomology is the adaptation of an animal to look like another animal. Sometimes animals will make themselves look bigger when they see another animal that they feel threatened by.
What are examples of mimicry in the animal kingdom?
A butterfly looks like a flower, so the other animals won't eat it.
Do giraffes have mimicry?
The stripes break up it's outline, so predators cannot see from a distance how big it is or guage it's exact position. The same process was used to camouflage ships in wartime
Do elephants use camouflage or mimicry?
Porcupines don't need to camouflage itself because they depend on their pointy spines to protect them.
Why do plants and animals use mimicry or camouflage?
Mimicry describes an animal who is behaving like another type of animal to throw off its predators. Camouflage describes an animal's ability to make itself look like something else to blend in with its surroundings.
How does camouflage help an animal survive?
Camouflage helps an animal to be disguised as if it were the surrounding objects. This way the pray can hide from the predator and be able to survive longer because it wasn't found and eaten by the animal hunting it.
What does mimicry?
To mimic is to try to be like something else. You might want to behave like someone. Comedians often do impersonations of people. That is mimicry. Someone trying to make the sound of a particular bird is mimicry.
Why do you think that mimicry and camouflage exist in nature?
Both are forms of passive defense. Camouflage is when a species evolves to have colours and paterns simlar to its natural environment allowing it to blend in and thus hiding it from predators. Mimicry is when one harmless species evolves to look like a dangerous one. Because animals learn not to attack or eat the dangerous one they are also afriad to eat the mimic because they think it is the same species. An example of this is the harmless hornet (there are also dangerous species) which has evolves black and yellow stripes to look like wasps, which of course have stingers. As predators dont like to attack wasps they learn not to attack hornets either. For this type of defense to work there must be more of the dangerous species than the mimic otherwise the predators will be more likely to get the mimins and thus learn the patterns they have to be safe patterns.
