Predator discrimination error and the benefits of Mullerian mimicry

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1281-1288

  Macdougall, Angus ^b   Dawkins, Marian Stamp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINICRY; MULLERIAN MIMICRY; PALATABILITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

EID: 0032078821     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0702     Document Type: Article

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