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Aposematism, the Glossary

Aposematism is the advertising by an animal, whether terrestrial or marine, to potential predators that it is not worth attacking or eating.^[1]

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Antipredator adaptations
Chemical ecology
Evolution by phenotype
Signalling theory
Warning coloration

Advertising in biology

Advertising in biology means the use of displays by organisms such as animals and plants to signal their presence for some evolutionary reason. Aposematism and Advertising in biology are signalling theory.

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Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator.

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Alkaloid

Alkaloids are a class of basic, naturally occurring organic compounds that contain at least one nitrogen atom.

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Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.

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Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Animal coloration

Animal colouration is the general appearance of an animal resulting from the reflection or emission of light from its surfaces. Aposematism and animal coloration are warning coloration.

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Antheraea polyphemus

Antheraea polyphemus, the Polyphemus moth, is a North American member of the family Saturniidae, the giant silk moths.

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Anti-predator adaptation

Anti-predator adaptations are mechanisms developed through evolution that assist prey organisms in their constant struggle against predators. Aposematism and Anti-predator adaptation are Antipredator adaptations.

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Arctiinae

The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.

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Badger

Badgers are short-legged omnivores in the family Mustelidae (which also includes the otters, wolverines, martens, minks, polecats, weasels, and ferrets).

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Batesian mimicry

Batesian mimicry is a form of mimicry where a harmless species has evolved to imitate the warning signals of a harmful species directed at a predator of them both. Aposematism and Batesian mimicry are Antipredator adaptations and chemical ecology.

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Behavioral Ecology (journal)

Behavioral Ecology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology.

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Blue-ringed octopus

Blue-ringed octopuses, comprising the genus Hapalochlaena, are four extremely venomous species of octopus that are found in tide pools and coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans, from Japan to Australia.

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Bombycoidea

Bombycoidea is a superfamily of moths, including the silk moths, giant silk moths, sphinx moths, saturniids, and relatives. The superfamily Lasiocampoidea is a close relative and was historically sometimes merged in this group. After many years of debate and shifting taxonomies, the most recent classifications treat the superfamily as containing 10 constituent families.

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Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Cambridge Philosophical Society (CPS) is a scientific society at the University of Cambridge.

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Camouflage

Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else. Aposematism and Camouflage are Antipredator adaptations.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

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Chromatophore

Chromatophores are cells that produce color, of which many types are pigment-containing cells, or groups of cells, found in a wide range of animals including amphibians, fish, reptiles, crustaceans and cephalopods.

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Cinnabar moth

The cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae) is a brightly coloured arctiid moth found as a native species in Europe and western and central Asia then east across the Palearctic to Siberia to China.

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Coccinellidae

Coccinellidae is a widespread family of small beetles.

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Colostethus

Colostethus is a genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America, from Panama south to Colombia, Ecuador, and northern Peru.

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Coral snake

Coral snakes are a large group of elapid snakes that can be divided into two distinct groups, the Old World coral snakes and New World coral snakes.

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Crown-of-thorns starfish

The crown-of-thorns starfish (frequently abbreviated to COTS), Acanthaster planci, is a large starfish that preys upon hard, or stony, coral polyps (Scleractinia).

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Cytolysis

Cytolysis, or osmotic lysis, occurs when the liquid outside a cell enters the cell causing it to burst.

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Dasymutilla occidentalis

Dasymutilla occidentalis (red velvet ant, eastern velvet ant, cow ant or cow killer) is a species of parasitoid wasp that ranges from Connecticut to Kansas in the north and Florida to Texas in the south.

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Deimatic behaviour

Deimatic behaviour or startle display means any pattern of bluffing behaviour in an animal that lacks strong defences, such as suddenly displaying conspicuous eyespots, to scare off or momentarily distract a predator, thus giving the prey animal an opportunity to escape. Aposematism and Deimatic behaviour are Antipredator adaptations, signalling theory and warning coloration.

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Dendrobates

Dendrobates is a genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America.

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Dietary conservatism

Dietary conservatism is a foraging strategy in which individuals show a prolonged reluctance to eat novel foods, even after neophobia has been overcome.

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Dominance (genetics)

In genetics, dominance is the phenomenon of one variant (allele) of a gene on a chromosome masking or overriding the effect of a different variant of the same gene on the other copy of the chromosome.

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Ecology Letters

Ecology Letters is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley and the French National Centre for Scientific Research.

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Edward Bagnall Poulton

Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, FRS HFRSE FLS (27 January 1856 – 20 November 1943) was a British evolutionary biologist, a lifelong advocate of natural selection through a period in which many scientists such as Reginald Punnett doubted its importance.

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Epipedobates

Epipedobates is a genus of poison dart frogs native to northern South America (Colombia and Ecuador) west of the Andes, including the western slopes.

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Evolution

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Evolution (journal)

Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, is a monthly scientific journal that publishes significant new results of empirical or theoretical investigations concerning facts, processes, mechanics, or concepts of evolutionary phenomena and events.

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Eyespot (mimicry)

An eyespot (sometimes ocellus) is an eye-like marking. Aposematism and eyespot (mimicry) are Antipredator adaptations.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Fritz Müller

Johann Friedrich Theodor Müller (31 March 182221 May 1897), better known as Fritz Müller, and also as Müller-Desterro, was a German biologist who emigrated to southern Brazil, where he lived in and near the city of Blumenau, Santa Catarina.

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Grasshopper

Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera.

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Handicap principle

The handicap principle is a disputed hypothesis proposed by the Israeli biologist Amotz Zahavi in 1975. Aposematism and handicap principle are animal communication and signalling theory.

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Henry Walter Bates

Henry Walter Bates (8 February 1825 in Leicester – 16 February 1892 in London) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.

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Hexabranchus

Hexabranchidae is a family of colourful nudibranchs (often called "sea slugs") which contains only a single genus, Hexabranchus, with six species.

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Hominini

The Hominini (hominins) form a taxonomic tribe of the subfamily Homininae (hominines).

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Honey badger

The honey badger (Mellivora capensis), also known as the ratel, is a mammal widely distributed in Africa, Southwest Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

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Hornet moth

The hornet moth or hornet clearwing (Sesia apiformis) is a large moth native to Europe and the Middle East and has been introduced to North America.

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Insect

Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.

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John Jenner Weir

John Jenner Weir, FLS, FZS (9 August 1822 – 23 March 1894) was an English amateur entomologist, ornithologist and British civil servant.

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Kin selection

Kin selection is a process whereby natural selection favours a trait due to its positive effects on the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even when at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction.

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Latrodectus

Latrodectus is a broadly distributed genus of spiders with several species that are commonly known as the true widows.

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Linnean Society of London

The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy.

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Macmillan's Magazine

Macmillan's Magazine was a monthly British magazine published 1859 to 1907 by Alexander Macmillan.

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Malacologia

Malacologia is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of malacology, the study of mollusks.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Mannophryne

Mannophryne is a genus of frogs native to Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago.

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Müllerian mimicry

Müllerian mimicry is a natural phenomenon in which two or more well-defended species, often foul-tasting and sharing common predators, have come to mimic each other's honest warning signals, to their mutual benefit. Aposematism and Müllerian mimicry are Antipredator adaptations, chemical ecology and warning coloration.

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Memory

Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed.

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Metrodira subulata

Metrodira subulata is a species of starfish in the family Echinasteridae.

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Milk snake

The milk snake or milksnake (Lampropeltis triangulum), is a species of kingsnake; 24 subspecies are currently recognized.

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Mimic poison frog

Ranitomeya imitator (formerly Dendrobates imitator), is a species of poison dart frog found in the north-central region of eastern Peru.

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Mimicry

In evolutionary biology, mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species. Aposematism and mimicry are warning coloration.

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Mutillidae

The Mutillidae are a family of more than 7,000 species of wasps whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants.

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Neophobia

Neophobia is the fear of anything new, especially a persistent and abnormal fear.

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Neurotoxin

Neurotoxins are toxins that are destructive to nerve tissue (causing neurotoxicity).

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New Scientist

New Scientist is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology.

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Nudibranch

Nudibranchs belong to the order Nudibranchia, a group of soft-bodied marine gastropod molluscs that shed their shells after their larval stage.

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Odor

An odor (American English) or odour (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is caused by one or more volatilized chemical compounds that are generally found in low concentrations that humans and many animals can perceive via their sense of smell.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Passerine

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes (from Latin passer 'sparrow' and formis '-shaped') which includes more than half of all bird species.

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Perception

Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.

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Phyllidia varicosa

Phyllidia varicosa is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Phyllidiidae.

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Phyllidiidae

Phyllidiidae is a family of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Phyllidioidea.

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Phyllobates

Phyllobates is a genus of poison dart frogs native to Central and South America, from Nicaragua to Colombia.

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Pitohui

The pitohuis are bird species endemic to New Guinea.

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Plant

Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.

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Poison dart frog

Poison dart frog (also known as dart-poison frog, poison frog or formerly known as poison arrow frog) is the common name of a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae which are native to tropical Central and South America.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. Aposematism and Predation are Ecology.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.

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Rattlesnake

Rattlesnakes are venomous snakes that form the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers).

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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Royal Entomological Society

The Royal Entomological Society is devoted to the study of insects.

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Saponin

Saponins (Latin "sapon", soap + "-in", one of), also selectively referred to as triterpene glycosides, are bitter-tasting usually toxic plant-derived organic chemicals that have a foamy quality when agitated in water.

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Science (journal)

Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.

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Sexual selection

Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual selection).

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Signalling theory

Within evolutionary biology, signalling theory is a body of theoretical work examining communication between individuals, both within species and across species. Aposematism and signalling theory are animal communication.

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Skunk

Skunks are mammals in the family Mephitidae.

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Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups (gregariousness) and form cooperative societies.

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Sound

In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.

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Sponge

Sponges (also known as sea sponges), the members of the phylum Porifera (meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts.

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Stinger

A stinger (or sting) is a sharp organ found in various animals (typically insects and other arthropods) capable of injecting venom, usually by piercing the epidermis of another animal.

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Stridulation

Stridulation is the act of producing sound by rubbing together certain body parts.

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Striped polecat

The striped polecat (Ictonyx striatus), also called the African polecat, zoril, zorille, zorilla, Cape polecat, and African skunk, is a member of the family Mustelidae that resembles a skunk (of the family Mephitidae).

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Thalassoma amblycephalum

Thalassoma amblycephalum, the blunt-headed wrasse, blue-headed wrasse, blue-headed zoe, moon wrasse, paddle-fin wrasse or two-tone wrasse, is a species of wrasse native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

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The Colours of Animals

The Colours of Animals is a zoology book written in 1890 by Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856–1943). Aposematism and The Colours of Animals are warning coloration.

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The Journal of Experimental Biology

Journal of Experimental Biology (formerly The British Journal of Experimental Biology) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of comparative physiology and integrative biology.

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The Science of Nature

The Science of Nature, formerly Naturwissenschaften, is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media covering all aspects of the natural sciences relating to questions of biological significance.

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Trends (journals)

Trends is a series of 16 review journals in a range of areas of biology and chemistry published under its Cell Press imprint by Elsevier.

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Ultrasound

Ultrasound is sound with frequencies greater than 20 kilohertz.

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Unkenreflex

Unkenreflex – interchangeably referred to as unken reflex (Unke is the German word for fire-bellied toads) – is a defensive posture adopted by several branches of the amphibian class – including salamanders, toads, and certain species of frogs. Aposematism and Unkenreflex are Antipredator adaptations and signalling theory.

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Venom

Venom or zootoxin is a type of toxin produced by an animal that is actively delivered through a wound by means of a bite, sting, or similar action.

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Vertebrate

Vertebrates are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone — around and along the spinal cord, including all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

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X chromosome

The X chromosome is one of the two sex chromosomes in many organisms, including mammals, and is found in both males and females.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aposematism

Also known as Aposemantic coloration, Aposematic, Aposematic Coloration, Aposematic Mechanism, Aposematic colouration, Aposomatic coloration, Aposomatic colouration, Warning color, Warning coloration, Warning colors, Warning colour, Warning colouration, Warning colours, Warning mechanism, Warning signal.

, Linnean Society of London, Macmillan's Magazine, Malacologia, Mammal, Mannophryne, Müllerian mimicry, Memory, Metrodira subulata, Milk snake, Mimic poison frog, Mimicry, Mutillidae, Nature (journal), Neophobia, Neurotoxin, New Scientist, Nudibranch, Odor, Oxford University Press, Passerine, Perception, Phyllidia varicosa, Phyllidiidae, Phyllobates, Pitohui, Plant, Poison dart frog, Predation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Rattlesnake, Reptile, Routledge, Royal Entomological Society, Saponin, Science (journal), Sexual selection, Signalling theory, Skunk, Sociality, Sound, Sponge, Stinger, Stridulation, Striped polecat, Thalassoma amblycephalum, The Colours of Animals, The Journal of Experimental Biology, The Science of Nature, Trends (journals), Ultrasound, Unkenreflex, Venom, Vertebrate, X chromosome.

Aposematism, the Glossary

Table of Contents

See also

Antipredator adaptations

Chemical ecology

Evolution by phenotype

Signalling theory

Warning coloration

References