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When the imitated species is absent.
When does Batesian mimicry stop working, as found in the experiment with the dummy snakes?
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He called it “one of the most remarkable and admirable papers I ever read in my life.”
How did Darwin describe Bates’ paper on biomimicry among butterflies in the Amazon?
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Pará
Where did Henry Walter Bates get Yellow fever?
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Leptalidae & Heliconidae
What species of butterflies did Bates struggle to differentiate between when they were in flight?
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Birds quickly learn which butterflies are unpalatable and subsequently reject any butterfly resembling them.
What did Jane van Zandt Brower find?
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Collecting and selling specimens
How did Bates make his living?
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Amazon
What was the largest river system during the time of Bate’s travels?
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the Spicebush Swallowtail caterpillar
What specimen frightened locals who saw it when Bates brought it into the village?
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The unpalatable form is not present
Bate’s second key inference is that mimicry is the expectation that protection from predators should break down from where?
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Made careful notes about whether certain varieties were present or
What did Bates do that made his research so renowned?
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11, because he received fresh funds and a letter from his agent in London saying the specimens he had sent were very well received
How many years did Bates spend in the Amazon in total, and why was it that he stayed so long?
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Wing markings were similar and flew in same parts of the forest
What was similar about the species Leptalidae & Heliconidae?
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Unpalatable, imitating
Fill in the blanks: One of Bates’ key inferences was that the species being mimicked is ___ to predators and that palatable species gains protection by ___ the unpalatable species’ appearances.
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Counterfeit butterflies were passing themselves off as a real species that existed in abundance
What did Bates mean by mimetic analogy?
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He never returned
What year did Bates’ return to the Amazon?
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Beauty and diverse colours
Why were the butterflies highly prized in the amazon?
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vavoid
Fill in the blanks: Predators ___coral snake (poisonous) mimics where coral snakes live
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Species are only ever observed mimicking other species which share the same range. Palatable butterflies mimic unpalatable butterflies.
What was the ecological significance of the mimicry observed in the butterflies?
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8000
How many new species of animal did Bates discover during his voyage in the Amazon?
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550, 66, 300 14.
How many distinct species of butterflies were found in the Upper Amazon? Britain? All of Europe?
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