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What is mimicry in animals?

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Mimicry in animals, is when an insect will act as another insect, in appearance and/or behavior, to avoid detection from predators.

Batesian Mimicry is when a harmless organism mimics a harmful organism in order to trick predators. Examples of this would be the Scarlet King Snake, and The Eastern Coral Snake.

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It's when an animal evolves to imitate the look of another animal. An example would be the false coral snake. It's colour pattern was selected because its predatores avoided killing and eating snakes that had the bright warning colours of a true highly poisonous coral snake. Other examples would be caterpillars with tails that look like snake heads.

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