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Index of Subjects Almost as bad as a friend of mine who removed a coyote from a snare, and thinking it was dead, slung it over his shoulder, only to have it run away when he put it down. He also taught biology! Billy +On 22 Sep 2014 14:59, Phil Schappert wrote: > At 12:48 PM -0300 9/22/14, Randy Lauff wrote: >>Likely, you've heard of the mimicry between the illness inducing >> Monarch and the perfectly edible Viceroy. This is an example of >> Batesian mimicry, where the mimic is not harmful, but benefits from >> looking like it is. > > Often, all is not as it seems at the best of times, Randy, especially > with the Viceroy mimicry system. See, for example, David Ritland's > paper (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00328409) on the > unpalatability of the mimetic Viceroy in comparison to its purported > model, the Queen, in Florida. > > Phil > > -- > > Phil Schappert, PhD > > 27 Clovis Ave. > Halifax, NS, B3P 1J3 > 902-460-8343 (cell) > > philschappert.ca > imaginaturestudio.ca > imaginaturestudio.blogspot.ca > philschappert.com > > "Just let imagination lead, reality will follow through..." > (Michael Hedges)
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