Mimicry in animals is a common form of protection from predators. For instance, two distasteful or toxic butterflies may mimic each other for mutual defense, as the viceroy and monarch butterflies do.

Two natural scientists at Macquarie University, working with an evolutionary specialist at the University of New South Wales, all in Australia, have found that imperfect mimicry in spiders and insects ...

Orchids are masters of deception, using visual mimicry, chemical signals, and complex structures to manipulate pollinators without offering any reward. Some species imitate the appearance and scent of ...

When tiger beetles hear a bat nearby, they respond by creating a high-pitched, ultrasonic noise, and for the past 30 years, no one has known why. In a new study, scientists lay the mystery to rest by ...

Some ants might actually not be ants at all, and instead be other animals pretending to be them. Pictures from a new paper in the journal Biology Letters show ants, other insects and spiders that all ...

Last week, retired biology professor Jack Kirkley helped us tell the difference between the monarch and viceroy butterflies. The viceroy mimics the monarch, which is poisonous to eat. Following a ...

Are you looking at a scene of tree or is there a creature in plain sight, but you don’t see it because it is so well camouflaged? At one time or other we are all surprised by an encounter with an ...

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