This document discusses different types of mimicry in biology. It defines mimicry as when an animal copies traits of another species to gain a survival advantage. There are two main types - defensive mimicry, where harmless species mimic venomous/poisonous ones to avoid predation, and non-defensive mimicry which serves other purposes. Specific defensive mimicry types include Batesian where a harmless species mimics a toxic one, Müllerian where multiple toxic species mimic each other, and aggressive mimicry where predators mimic prey. The document also discusses camouflage, auto-mimicry, and how mimicry drives animal evolution.

1. How animals survives

3. What is mimicry in the biology?
 When an animal displays physical or behavioral traits
by copying of different species or their surroundings,
and incur a survival advantages on account of it is
called mimicry .

4. Mimicry Vs Camouflage
 Mimicry: the ability of an
organism to develop one or
more traits of another organism
so that it can obtain some
benefit.
 Camouflage the ability of an
organism has to be unnoticed
by its predators by disruptive
coloration that allows it to hide.

5. Types of mimicry
 Defensive mimicry
 The defensive mimicry is specially performed by
animals that have lots of predators, so their
survival rates depend on avoiding their predators.
 Non-Defensive mimicry
 This type is not used for defense but several other
purposes:

6. Types of defencive mimicrey
 Batesian
 Müllerian
 Mertensian
 Wasmannian

7. Batesian Mimicry
 Harmless organisms copies the morphological traits like
coloration and sounds of some poisonous or venomous
organism in order to deceive the predators by making them
think of it as harmful.
 For example, a non-poisonous King Snake uses the
aposematic coloration of the poisonous Coral Snake to avoid
its predators

8. Müllerian Mimicry
 In Müllerian mimicry, two or more types of poisonous
and venomous species develop similar appearances in
order to get the advantage of protection.
 In contrast to Batesian mimicry, Müllerian mimicry
involves only poisonous and venomous species.

9. Mertensian Mimicry
This is very unusual form of mimicry
 This type of mimicry helps in lowering the predation
rates because a predator eating a deadly species dies so
it will be unable to transmit the information that the
prey is harmful so the predation rate remains high.
 But if the deadly species resembles a less harmful
species and the prey eats the less harmful species, it
will transmit information to the other species that
“Don’t eat this prey, its harmful”.

10. Wasmannian mimicry
 It occurs when the mimic resembles it's predator in
order to live within the same nest or structure

11. Non-Defensive Mimicry
Aggressive Mimicry
 Unlike defensive mimicry, in aggressive mimicry, the
predators develop the traits of a harmless or even
beneficial species so they get unnoticed by their prey
or hostage.
 “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”

12. Auto mimicry
 The auto mimicry is a special case
of mimicry that takes place when
an organism transforms some
part of its body in order to seems
like another part of its own body
 obtain some benefit from other
organisms or maybe to be
unnoticed by their predators or
preys.

13. Beetles like the Staphylinidae (right) and Phosphaenus hemipterus (left)
mimic scorpions that may scare predators.
Signs of warning:
(maybe) I’m dangerous

14. Mimicry makes animals to evolve!
 Mimicry is one of the processes that makes animals to
evolve faster and become more fittest.
 These changes may occur in a higher or lower speed. So,
what about those animals that mimic other organisms?
Mimetic animals are in constant selective pressure to look
more like their models in order to go unnoticed and
improve their survival, but at the same time imitated
organisms (the models) are also under selection to sharp
their ability to discern between models and imitators.
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