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Defensive Adaptations and Mimicry

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Aposematism is warning coloration advertising a defense; Batesian mimicry is a harmless species resembling a defended one; Mullerian mimicry is defended species converging on one warning pattern.

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A harmless hoverfly's yellow-and-black stripes mimic a stinging wasp's pattern, deterring predators that learned to avoid the wasp.

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Batesian mimicry needs a defended model nearby; Mullerian mimicry involves species that are each already defended.