Camouflage and mimicry By Feather W/ an "H"

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Camouflage and mimicry are not the same thing. They are both adaptations, which animals use to fool predators so they don't end up as dinner, however they are two different concepts of trickery. Camouflage and mimicry are adaptations some animals use as protection from predators. An animal that uses camouflage looks like things in its environment. It might look like a leaf, a twig, or a rock. Animals that use mimicry use colors and markings to look like another animal. Camouflage is the term describing what some animals do when they change or are the colors of a non-moving object in their environment such as a tree etc. Mimicry is the term used to describe animals when they mimic or act like somthing else, (whether using coloration, or just copying behavior) another living animal which might be more frightening to a predator.Some change their colors to hide from an animal that might not be able to that certain way.Examples of Mimicry

Visual
1. monarch and viceroy butterflies

2. yellow jacket and sand wasp

3. syrphid fly and honey bee

4. coral snake and colubrid snake

5. cuckoo and various host birds (an example of egg mimicry)

6. red-backed salamander and red salamander

7. poison-fang blenny and Ecsenius blenny

8. gold-of-pleasure plant and the flax plant

9. mantid (insectivorous) and orchid

10. ophrys (orchids) and female of some species

11. pipe-vine swallowtail butterfly and spice-bush swallowtail

12. caterpillars and catkins

Odor
13. caterpillar and Myrmica ant

14. spider and red ant of Florida

















LINKS
http://hour4team2.blogspot.com/
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Animal_Behavior/Mimicry_and_Camouflage
http://www.bugsincyberspace.com/mimicry_and_camouflage.html
http://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/2900_Natural_Selection_in_the_Wild.htm
http://www.cites.org/gallery/species/reptile/canopy_chameleon.html