The study followed the predictions very closely. Researchers said the results do not fully explain why color mimicry continues to be found in areas without coral snakes, but they said their study indeed provides experimental evidence to support the prediction that the success or failure of Batesian mimicry depends on the abundance of the creature being imitated. If not, it's a king snake. She warned against trying to get close enough to tell the difference. A coral snake will kill an adult.
Coral snakes are in the same family with cobras.
Pfennig was graduated from the University of California at San Diego with a bachelor's degree in ecology, behavior and evolution. She earned her Ph.D. in biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to her NSF postdoctoral fellowship at UT Austin, she was a NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow in biological sciences at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.