Question

While traveling in Texas, you stumble across a snake with red, yellow, and black bands. You somehow remember that this could be a poisonous coral snake or a harmless milk snake, but you forget how to differentiate them because they both have similar colors and banding patterns. You wisely decide not to pick up the snake. What you don't realize, is that it was the harmless milk snake. What defense of the snake was successful in preventing you from grabbing the snake?a. Constitutive defense b. Mullerian mimiery c. Batesian mimiery d. Inducible defenses

Answer 1

Answer: Batesian mimicry

Explanation: Batesian Mimicry is defined as the resemblance of one or more non-poisonous species to a poisonous species. For example, the poisonous coral snake and the harmless milk snake. It is a relationship between two organisms where one is harmless, looks almost exactly like one that is harmful.