You are doing field work on a small, uninhabited island. you are supplementing your food supply with fish that live in some of the ponds on the island. you catch a brightly colored fish with red and black stripes, filet it, pan fry it, and spit out your first bite because it tastes like it had been soaked in urine. back at camp, your guide from a nearby island is pan frying fish with red and black stripes he caught in an adjacent pond. when you tell him not to eat those, he smiles and says these are the best-tasting fish in the whole island chain! you look closer and see the pattern of the red and black stripes is just a little different from the fish you caught. what principle of ecology have you just experienced firsthand?

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Allie Atkins

Biology

17 January, 09:33

You are doing field work on a small, uninhabited island. you are supplementing your food supply with fish that live in some of the ponds on the island. you catch a brightly colored fish with red and black stripes, filet it, pan fry it, and spit out your first bite because it tastes like it had been soaked in urine. back at camp, your guide from a nearby island is pan frying fish with red and black stripes he caught in an adjacent pond. when you tell him not to eat those, he smiles and says these are the best-tasting fish in the whole island chain! you look closer and see the pattern of the red and black stripes is just a little different from the fish you caught. what principle of ecology have you just experienced firsthand?

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Nina Strong · Answer 1

You experience Mimicry a kind of ecology principles. Mimicry is similar of the one organism, actually an animal to the other that has develop because the affinity is selectively favoured by the behaviour of the of a shared signal receiver that can reply to both and to protect a species from predators, making it an antipredator adaptation.