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Posted by: Garsik at Fri Nov 4 19:35:43 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Garsik ] This stuff makes me wonder about the coral snake/tricolor snake connection. I always thought the tricolors where mimicing the deadly corals. The more I learn the more it seems that as potent as coral snake venom is, it is not functionally defensive (maybe more so in the past, but now conserved as most venomous consider this commodity "valuable"?). So why the mimicry, which could only serve to scare away the prey which the venom is used on (which probably only see in black and white anyway)? I guess a related question would be what is the proportion of predators/prey and color vision/BW vision that causes any color mimicry to make sense anyway. Is any other venomous snake as mimiced (if that is what is is) as the coral snake which is not aggressive anyway? | ||
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