Costly Butterflies
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Intimidating butterflies.
Many butterfly species feature two or four conspicuously coloured eyespots on their wings; the most commonly heard explanation for these markings is that they are used to intimidate predators. However, this explanation has stood, until recently, on the flimsiest of empirical foundations. Now, Adrian Vallin and colleagues have demonstrated empirically the effectiveness of these signals in dissua...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scientific American
سال: 1897
ISSN: 0036-8733
DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican12111897-371