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    it is unclear whether aposematism is significant. The sound-producing rattle of rattlesnakes is an acoustic form of aposematism. Sound production by the...
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    develop aposematism. After the switch, the frogs had greater ecological opportunities, causing dietary specialization to arise. Thus, aposematism is not...
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    Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (/koʊliːˈɒptərə/), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases...
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    successfully hatched. Acharia stimulea has two distinct defense mechanisms, aposematism and mimicry. Acharia stimulea exhibits aposematic coloring which is a...
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    often polymorphic, and many species make use of camouflage, mimicry, and aposematism to evade their predators. Some, like the monarch and the painted lady...
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    camouflage (protective coloration); mimicry, both Batesian and Müllerian; and aposematism. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, arguing...
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    seeing as so many poisonous flora and fauna are so colourful due to aposematism, this idea appears to have merit. The Buddhist deity Mahamayuri is depicted...
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    Many mammals, such as the tiger, bare their teeth as a sign of aggression; a form of aposematism....
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    2307/1564394. JSTOR 1564394. Bates, David L.; Fenton, M. Brock (1990). "Aposematism or startle? Predators learn their responses to the defenses of prey"...
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    ultrasonic clicks that warn predatory bats of their unpalatability (acoustic aposematism), while some palatable moths have evolved to mimic these calls (acoustic...
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    S2CID 12047544. Hristov, NI; Conner, WE (2005). "Sound strategy: acoustic aposematism in the bat–tiger moth arms race". Naturwissenschaften. 92 (4): 164–169...
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    Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting...
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    harvestmen avoid encountering a potential predator and include crypsis, aposematism, and mimicry. Particular patterns or colour markings on harvestmen's...
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    characters and changes in ecological lifestyles and behaviors. These include aposematism, mimicry, camouflage, and development of threat patterns and displays...
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    advantage in their largely arboreal habitat due to convergent evolution. Aposematism, warning off possible predators, is the most likely explanation of the...
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    human observers. The lemming defence system is thought to be based on aposematism (warning display). Fluctuations in the lemming population affect the...
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    Lehmann's poison frog or the red-banded poison frog (Oophaga lehmanni) is a species of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae endemic to a small part of western...
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    2023-09-06. Rojas, Bibiana; Valkonen, Janne; Nokelainen, Ossi (2015-05-04). "Aposematism". Current Biology. 25 (9): R350–R351. Bibcode:2015CBio...25.R350R. doi:10...
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    distasteful animals that advertise their presence with warning coloration (aposematism) use patterns that emphasize rather than disrupt their outlines. For...
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    "nondeceitful homotypy" and "arithmetic homotypy". Müllerian mimicry relies on aposematism, or warning signals. Dangerous organisms with these honest signals are...
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    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...
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    stinging animals such as sea anemones or noxious plants, benefiting from aposematism as well as or instead of crypsis. Some animals, in both terrestrial and...
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    off attack, whether by advertising the presence of strong defences in aposematism, by mimicking animals which do possess such defences, by startling the...
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    with the naturalist Julian Huxley discussing their use of camouflage, aposematism and courtship displays. Through this programme, Attenborough met Jack...
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    organisms serves many biological purposes, including camouflage, mimicry, aposematism (warning), sexual selection and other forms of signalling, photosynthesis...
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    they are the only terrestrial organisms to emit light of this color. Aposematism is a widely used function of bioluminescence, providing a warning that...
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    oil glycosides from food plants are stored in the individuals' bodies. Aposematism is not entirely related to Müllerian mimicry; however, large white larvae...
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    reduces potential predation of monarchs by 50% and indicates that monarch aposematism has a legitimate purpose. The black-headed grosbeak has also evolved...
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    hide from predators. This is likely an example of honestly signaled aposematism. Dolphins have been filmed expertly handling pufferfish amongst themselves...
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    by camouflage and mimicry; some have conspicuous warning coloration (aposematism) or deimatic behaviour. An octopus may spend 40% of its time hidden away...
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