Larry, I assure you I'm not taking a Wiccan standpoint! LOL! This whole thread could take a turn to convergent evolution and how that has affected new world snakes, which BTW I thought how this thread started.

However, we can agree to disagree here.

But your quote,



"When most people use the word "mimicry" in this context the are using it rather loosely. They just mean that something works because it happens to look or act like something else, not that it is actually TRYING to look or act like something else."



I have to disagree here, what about Hognose snake defense? They intentionally try to look OR act like something else when startled. There are several snakes that try to make themselves bigger as a defense mechanism, and color/banding/genetics has nothing to do with it. They are mimicking something that they are not, that is what mimicry is.



This should open up a big can of worms! LOL!

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