- Bates|i|an mimicry
- Bates|i|an mimicry «BAYT see uhn»,protective mimicry.╂[< Henry Walter Bates, 1825-1892, an English naturalist + -ian]
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Bates|i|an mimicry
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Mimicry — For other uses, see Mimic (disambiguation). Plate from Henry Walter Bates (1862) illustrating Batesian mimicry between Dismorphia species (top row, third row) and various Ithomiini (Nymphalidae, second row, bottom row) In … Wikipedia
mimicry — /mim ik ree/, n., pl. mimicries. 1. the act, practice, or art of mimicking. 2. Biol. the close external resemblance of an organism, the mimic, to some different organism, the model, such that the mimic benefits from the mistaken identity, as… … Universalium
Bates'sche Mimikry — Als Mimikry (engl. mimicry, von to mimic: „nachahmen, mimen“, verwandt mit griech. μίμηση (mímēsē): „Nachahmung, Imitation“) wird in der Biologie eine angeborene Form der Tarnung bezeichnet, die zur Täuschung eines Signalempfängers durch ein… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Bates , Henry Walter — (1825–1892) British naturalist and explorer The son of a stocking factory owner in the central English town of Leicester, Bates left school at 13 and was apprenticed to a hosiery manufacturer, but still found time for indulging his hobby of… … Scientists
Bates, H.W. — ▪ British naturalist and explorer in full Henry Walter Bates born Feb. 8, 1825, Leicester, Leicestershire, Eng. died Feb. 16, 1892, London naturalist and explorer whose demonstration of the operation of natural selection in animal mimicry (the … Universalium
Henry Walter Bates — FRS, FLS, FGS (February 8, 1825 ndash; February 16, 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace in 1848.… … Wikipedia
Müllerian mimicry — The Heliconius butterflies from the tropics of the Western Hemisphere are classic Müllerian mimics.[1] Müllerian mimicry is a natural phenomenon when two or more harmful species, that may or may not be closely related and share one or more common … Wikipedia
Batesian mimicry — /bayt see euhn/, Ecol. the protective resemblance in appearance of a palatable or harmless species, as the viceroy butterfly, to an unpalatable or dangerous species, as the monarch butterfly, that is usually avoided by predators. Cf. Müllerian… … Universalium
Batesian mimicry — Bates′i•an mim′icry [[t]ˈbeɪt si ən[/t]] n. mimicry in which a species with poor defenses resembles another species that more successfully avoids predators • Etymology: after Henry Walter Bates (1825–92), English naturalist … From formal English to slang
Batesian mimicry — is a form of mimicry typified by a situation where a harmless species has evolved to imitate the warning signals of a harmful species directed at a common predator. It is named after the English naturalist Henry Walter Bates, after his work in… … Wikipedia
