Sentence examples for distasteful model from inspiring English sources

The form and coloration of a Batesian mimic, on the other hand, usually ensures that the organism will be perceived by animals, including predators, but that it will be identified with the harmful or distasteful model species.

Studies have shown that birds often pay attention to some parts of a signalling pattern and disregard others, which could be of importance in Batesian mimicry, where a palatable species copies the visual appearance of a distasteful model in order to deceive predators.

Limenitis arthemis (Drury) includes two populations, L. a. astyanax (Fabricius) and L. a. arizonensis Edwards, which are mimics of the distasteful model Battus philenor (L).

This was perhaps achieved through evolution of a mimetic relationship with the presumably distasteful model Dione moneta (Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae: Heliconiini); in flight, adults of D. moneta and P. haroldii appear nearly indistinguishable, since the metallic ventral spots of D. moneta frequently are not visible (ADW, pers.

The book introduced the concept of frequency-dependent selection, as when edible mimics are less frequent than the distasteful models whose colours and patterns they copy.

Three of the four North American species include populations which are Batesian mimics of distasteful models [ 11- 14].

Inevitably there are some who find the new models distasteful.

One of the distasteful species may initially model itself on the other, but, if they are almost equal in abundance, the species may coevolve and converge on some intermediate pattern.

In the sexual-misconduct nightmare that has forced the city's school system to wake up to distasteful realities, there are several models to consider.

The idea of Margaret Thatcher as a feminist role model has always been problematic, even distasteful, to the left.

To provide aposematic "models," the experimenter made other mealworms distasteful and painted the same segments green.