Monarchs, Viceroys and Queens
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Description: Christopher Majca muses on the Batesian and Mullerian mimicry used by butterflies, particularly the unpalatable Monarch and the edible Viceroy.
From The New Brunswick Naturalist Who's the real pretender to the throne? The mysteries of mimicry had a special attraction for me. Its phenomena showed an artistic perfection usually associated with man-wrought things. ..."Natural selection," in the Darwinian sense, could not explain the miraculous coincidence of imitative asp ect and imitative behavior ... carried to a point of mimetic subtlety, exuberance, and luxury far in excess of a predator's power of appreciation. -- Vladimir Nabokov
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