Sentence examples for unpalatable model from inspiring English sources

If the mimic is uncommon, the convergence may not affect the unpalatable model, because it will be less likely that predators will consume many mimics by mistake and uncover the fraud.

The model includes two aposematic prey species: a highly unpalatable Model and a Mimic that is either palatable (Batesian) or less unpalatable (Müllerian).

This relationship would constitute a form of Batesian mimicry, where palatable species mimic an unpalatable model, obtaining some degree of protection by deceiving predators that have learnt to avoid the unpalatable model [ 77, 85, 86].

The emergence and maintenance of Batesian mimicry, in which palatable mimics share conspicuous warning color patterns with unpalatable models that are protected from predation by their aposematic pattern, is particularly intriguing in evolutionary terms.

In Batesian mimicry, a palatable species (the Mimic) benefits from its resemblance to an unpalatable species (the Model), whose aposematic signal is therefore degraded in time; in this way, it is a parasitic relationship [1], [5], [8].

Several aspects of the cruise business model are unpalatable, starting with the industry's reliance on workers from low-wage economies, who in turn often depend on tips for their earnings.

In Batesian mimicry a palatable species models itself on an unpalatable species to fool predators into believing that they are not tasty.

This idea is supported by both theoretical and experimental evidence, but is also the source of a good deal of controversy because of its novel prediction that in a Model/Mimic relationship even a moderately unpalatable Mimic increases the risk of the Model (quasi-Batesian mimicry).

The capuchin data presented here, as well as recent data on Norway rat food choices (in which rats ignored previous knowledge about what foods were toxic or unpalatable in order to eat what they saw a model eat: Galef and Whiskin 2008) show that other species may also let a desire to conform to what they have seen override individually attained knowledge.

Desperately, he explored such unpalatable alternatives as mounting the whale on a pedestal like an airplane model, making it of rubber and floating it like a Macy's balloon or serving it up, beached and dead, on a bed of sand.

Moreover, an experimental study demonstrated that a higher density of unpalatable prey reduced the proportion of prey being attacked [32], although the model predicts it to be fixed.