CARBON COPY:

The viceroy butterfly (above) and monarch butterfly, which are both toxic, share the same warning pattern, which helps to spread the message to predators that butterflies with this patterning are unpalatable....[More]

CARBON COPY:

The viceroy butterfly (above) and monarch butterfly, which are both toxic, share the same warning pattern, which helps to spread the message to predators that butterflies with this patterning are unpalatable.  [Less] [Link to this slide]

The harmless scarlet king snake (above) resembles the venomous Eastern coral snake.

SMELL NO EVIL:

The large blue butterfly depends on an ant species it mimics during its caterpillar phase. Large blue caterpillars copy both a chemical signal of the ant and an acoustic one to trick the ants into sheltering and feeding them....[More]

SMELL NO EVIL:

The large blue butterfly depends on an ant species it mimics during its caterpillar phase. Large blue caterpillars copy both a chemical signal of the ant and an acoustic one to trick the ants into sheltering and feeding them.  [Less] [Link to this slide]

TOXIC-SOUNDING:

Whereas a diurnal (daytime-active) insect can advertise its toxicity with warning coloration, that strategy would not work for a nocturnal moth trying to avoid a predator hunting in the dark....[More]

TOXIC-SOUNDING:

Whereas a diurnal (daytime-active) insect can advertise its toxicity with warning coloration, that strategy would not work for a nocturnal moth trying to avoid a predator hunting in the dark. Tiger moths thus emit warning clicks that bats learn to associate with unpalatable prey.  [Less] [Link to this slide]

SHAPE-SHIFTER:

Like most octopuses, Thaumoctopus mimicus, the mimic octopus, can change color to blend in with its surroundings. But it also impersonates at least one other species—a flounder—by holding its tentacles together in a flat, flounderlike shape and swimming in the flounder's undulating way....[More]

SHAPE-SHIFTER:

Like most octopuses, Thaumoctopus mimicus, the mimic octopus, can change color to blend in with its surroundings. But it also impersonates at least one other species—a flounder—by holding its tentacles together in a flat, flounderlike shape and swimming in the flounder's undulating way.  [Less] [Link to this slide]