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... from light brown to dark brown. ON AVERAGE, the darker butterflies will survive better than the lighter-coloured ones when resting on black tree trunks since they are harder to see by predators. So, the darker butterflies will ON AVERAGE produce more offspring. Over time, the average colour of ...

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... been explained in my readings is how this specifically happens. Here is a hypothetical example. Say in South America a forest develops black tree trunks over a long period of time. Now a normally brown butterfly or moth that lived on the bark of these trees was in peril and most died off. But ...

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... Some basic elements of this scandal are: - Many experiments conducted after Kettlewell's revealed that only one type of these moths rested on tree trunks, and all other types preferred to rest beneath small, horizontal branches. Since 1980 it has become clear that peppered moths do not normally ...

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... Since your member name is "123Herpatology" I will use Herpetofauna for an e.g. a Leaf tailed Gecko mimicking a leaf or part of a tree trunks bark benefits from this behavior thus gaining protection from predators, mimicry is also very common in the insect world as well. Stu

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... culicivora, is found only around Lake Victoria in Kenya and Uganda. A species of jumping spider, or salticid, it usually hunts insects on tree trunks and buildings. It stalks its prey rather than trapping it in a web. The study team says the jumping spider uses both its acute eyesight and its ...

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