The most well-known example of mimicry is probably the viceroy butterfly mimicing the monarch. However I chose to focus my topic of mimicry to only species in the Neotropics. I intend to emphasize how mimicry is important for survival. If an non-dangerous organism can trick its predator into thinking that it is dangerous, the predator will most likely avoid it and that organism has succeeded in remaining alive. As years progress, species become better and better at this trickery, which leads to natural selection.
Evolution is simply a series of minor changes.
A. Mimicry-predators are unable to distingusish one organism from another 1. 80 species of rove beetles live in ant's nests and resemble them in color and shape, chemical mimicry is used so they can enter the nests 4. Click HERE to return to the Research Menu.