Question

Harmless king snakes mimic the color patterns of venomous coral snakes, which serve as models. If avoidance were based solely on prior predator experience with the model, what do you predict would happen in areas where coral snakes were never present?

Answer 1

Answer:

The king snakes will be attacked and eaten by predators.

Explanation:

Mimicry can be described as a situation whereby an organism have the ability to imitate or copy one or more traits or character of another organism.

This can be described as a form of camouflage that organism exhibit to avoid been killed by predators, or to deceive other organism, by pretending to be one its species in order to kill it.

In the case, the harmless king snakes was trying to present itself as a harmful snake by mimicking the venomous coral snakes. Therefore, when it found itself where the coral snake are not wanted, it will be killed, because , it will be seen as a coral snake due to the mimicry process.