The phenomenon was first observed in two species of Brazilian forest butterflies in 1862, and Charles Darwin hailed the article in which the explanation was first published (in the Transactions of the Linnaean Society) as evidence that species experienced evolution.
The phenomenon was first observed in two species of Brazilian forest butterflies in 1862, and Charles Darwin hailed the article in which the explanation was first published (in the Transactions of the Linnaean Society) as evidence that species experienced evolution. A more famous example appears in the monarch and viceroy butterflies, since birds find the former noxious and therefore avoid the similarly colored viceroy. FTP, name this type of mimicry, in which a harmless animal gains protection by evolving to look like a noxious or poisonous relative.
The phenomenon was first observed in two species of Brazilian forest butterflies in 1862, and Charles Darwin hailed the article in which the explanation was first published (in the Transactions of the Linnaean Society) as evidence that species experienced evolution.
{Batesian mimicry}