Unlike most other octopuses, the mimic will sometimes choose to make itself more conspicuous to potential predators, rather than less.
In recent years several tag vendors have added symbols to soft tags in a bid to make them more conspicuous to potential offenders (Beck, personal communication).
"Before clothing, the nonretractable human penis would have been conspicuous to potential mates," says researcher Brian Mautz.
Its function is to make the animal, for example a wasp or a coral snake, highly conspicuous to potential predators, so that it is noticed, remembered, and then avoided.
Initially, the differences appeared to be more conspicuous than potential commonalities.
Ask to leave business cards and your company's brochures in a conspicuous place for potential home buyers.
In the hybrid cardiac SPECT/CT images, attenuation artifacts, especially in the inferoposterior wall, are conspicuous and have the potential to be misdiagnosed as true myocardial damage.
In India, infant formula cans carry a conspicuous warning about the potential harm that can be done to infants by improper preparation of the formula.
In India, legislation requires that tins of infant formula carry a conspicuous warning about the potential harm caused by artificial feeding, placed on the central panel of the label.
If risk is uniformly high, exploration of new food sources as well as social and sexual activities make potential prey animals conspicuous and vulnerable and thus increase predation risk.
