Question 4

(Multiple Choice)

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 colours and banding patterns. You wisely decide not to pick up the snake. What defence was successful in preventing you from grabbing the snake?


A) Batesian mimicry
B) inducible defences
C) Müllerian mimicry
D) constitutive defence
E) none of the above

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