A Two Dimensional Digital World of Prey Animals Signaling with Warning Colors to Predators in the Si (IMAGE)

Laboratory of Behavioral Ecology and Evolution at Seoul National University

A Two Dimensional Digital World of Prey Animals Signaling with Warning Colors to Predators in the Si

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Some toxic animals are bright to warn predators from attacking them, and some hide the warning colors, showing them only at the very last moment when they are about to be attacked. A new simulation model by researchers from Korea helps to understand this diversity in warning signals of prey towards predators .

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Song W., Lee SI, Jablonski PG.

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