Question

Describe the experiment that tests the potential benefit of mimicry (mimicking a venomous species). State the hypothesis correctly, describe the experiment, explain the results, and state the conclusion.

Answer 1

Mimicry is usually the similarity of one organism with another.It can be in organisms of same species or any different species.Often defensive mimicry takes place by organisms so that they can decieve enemies.Mimicry can be in appearence or behaviour etc.

Talking about mimicking a venomous species-

we can take example of many viperine snakes which are actually harmless.They mimic venomous snakes in their body pattern and colour and also somewhat to their body shape . They can also mimic their hissing sound.

Experiment can be conducted by bringing such snakes in laboratory and recording their hissing and body posture by seeing someone.For example - they can be kept in cleaned and closed glass containers and observed.We can find that if they see someone coming closer ,they will change their body posture into an defensive one and will start hissing at the person observing it .

Their hissing sound can be recorded by an instrument which is called sennheiser.The hissing sound has an particular frequency and intensity which can be used for measurement by the sennheiser.

various projects are being conducted to study the behaviour of such vipers.so, it can be concluded that such non-venomous snakes can easily decieve their predators like halks and crows.so this mimicking car help them a lot for their easy survival . Non-mimics can be eaten and this offers a good cance for the mimicking creatures in a longstanding evolution.Such type of mimicry is called BATESIAN mimicry in which a harmless mimicry poses as harmful.