Differential Avoidance of Mimetic Salamanders by Free-Ranging Birds

11 April 1980

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Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 208 (4440) , 181-182
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.208.4440.181

Abstract

Members of a free-ranging avian community avoided the mimetic morph of the salamander Plethodon cinereus significantly more often than a nonmimetic morph when offered with the model eft stage of Notophthalmus viridescens and the palatable salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus . This is apparently the first demonstration of the efficacy of mimetic coloration of salamanders to uncaged birds.

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