I must say, I have also read some literature pertaining to this, as well as ALL your post regarding this, and I really tend to agree as well that the banded/ringed patterns of many snakes serve more as a "disruptive" appearance for their silhouette, rather than a venomous mimicry.

This type of pattern as you may already know, has been utilized for navy ships as well for disrupting the large silhouette of ships in the ocean. This pattern when compared to even a conventional dull gray colored ship, amazingly stands out FAR less when viewed from a moderate distance. The visual proof of this phenomenon was simply astounding!

This brings up another question of mine,.....then why would a venomous Coral Snake need it,....what is it supposed to be mimicing?...LOL!........Coral Snakes being of a more docile, placid nature than many other species, I'm inclined to think that it is much better off NOT being noticed by others, rather than being noticed. You can't wan't to eat or molest what you can't see in the first place.

My thought process with this certainly isn't "rocket science", but I do have a good capacity to think and observe well, and have been heavily involved with many types of snakes for over four decades.

Also on a funny parting note, I have put many tri-colors in front of some of my dogs, and the only thing they wanted to do, was take a bite out of them. Now on the other hand, I've walked my dog outside and he thought a solid brown broken stick was a large snake, and was EXTREMELY hesitant, and wary of the stick!..LOL!.........and, no, that wasn't a proving scientific result of any kind, just a funny observation!


best regards, ~Doug



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