Monarch butterflies are protected from birds and other predators because of cardiac glycosides they incorporate into their tissues from eating milkweed when they were in their caterpillar stage. The wings of a different species of butterfly, the Viceroy, look nearly identical to the Monarch so predators that have learned not to eat the bad-tasting Monarch avoid Viceroys as well. This example best describes
A) aposmatic coloration.
B) cryptic coloration.
C) Batesian mimicry.
D) Müllerian mimicry.
E) mutualism.
A revised phylogenetic tree of flightless birds.
Predators come in a diversity of shapes and sizes.
Shown eating. Cougars are ambush predators, feeding mostly on deer and other mammals.
Card Deck
Camouflage in prey and predators.