Cognitive Dimensions of Predator Responses to Imperfect Mimicry

How palatable animals manage to enjoy increased protection from predators by imperfectly mimicking well-defended animals, like wasps, even though their resemblance appears slight to the human eye has long puzzled evolutionary biologists. Could predator cognition explain the mimics' success?

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Autores principales: Chittka, Lars, Osorio, Daniel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
Materias:
Unsolved Mystery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2222978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18162048
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050339
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spelling pubmed-22229782008-02-01 Cognitive Dimensions of Predator Responses to Imperfect Mimicry Chittka, Lars Osorio, Daniel PLoS Biol Unsolved Mystery How palatable animals manage to enjoy increased protection from predators by imperfectly mimicking well-defended animals, like wasps, even though their resemblance appears slight to the human eye has long puzzled evolutionary biologists. Could predator cognition explain the mimics' success? Public Library of Science 2007-12 2007-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2222978/ /pubmed/18162048 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050339 Text en © 2007 Chittka and Osorio. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Chittka, Lars
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Cognitive Dimensions of Predator Responses to Imperfect Mimicry
title Cognitive Dimensions of Predator Responses to Imperfect Mimicry
title_full Cognitive Dimensions of Predator Responses to Imperfect Mimicry
title_fullStr Cognitive Dimensions of Predator Responses to Imperfect Mimicry
title_full_unstemmed Cognitive Dimensions of Predator Responses to Imperfect Mimicry
title_short Cognitive Dimensions of Predator Responses to Imperfect Mimicry
title_sort cognitive dimensions of predator responses to imperfect mimicry
topic Unsolved Mystery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2222978/
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