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SUBMITTER: He R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8837650 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
He R R Pagani-Núñez E E Goodale E E Barnett C R A CRA
Scientific reports 20220211 1
Aposematic organisms defend themselves through various means to increase their unprofitability to predators which they advertise with conspicuous warning signals. Predators learn to avoid aposematic prey through associative learning that leads to lower predation. However, when these visual signals become unreliable (e.g., through automimicry or Batesian mimicry), predators may switch from using visual signals to taste sampling prey to choose among them. In this experiment, we tested this possibi ...[more]