aposematic in a sentence
Examples
- Part 2, advertisement, covers the methods of becoming conspicuous, especially for warning displays in aposematic animals.
- However, in areas where the model is scarce or locally extinct, mimics are driven to accurate aposematic coloration.
- Not all amphibians which display unkenreflexes possess aposematic coloring, nor do all amphibians display unkenreflex to the same degree.
- Cavernicolous ( cave-dwelling ) and subterranean species may lack pigmentation, and many tropical scolopendromorphs have bright aposematic colours.
- Once this leap has occurred, the mimic gradually evolves greater similarity to the model, which must already be aposematic.
- Many are well camouflaged; others are aposematic with bright colours and bristly projections containing toxic chemicals obtained from their food plants.
- The aposematic colours are most often some combination of red, yellow, black, white, whereas palatable animals are usually cryptic.
- Mimicry is to be expected as Batesian mimics with weak defences can gain a measure of protection from their resemblance to aposematic species.
- If the species was already unpalatable, predators might learn to avoid the cluster, protecting gregarious individuals with the new aposematic trait.
- If attacked by a predator, it arches its back to expose its brilliantly coloured aposematic underparts which give warning of its toxicity.