The Alcon Blue Butterfly: a master class in animal deception
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2016 · Education
When it is still a caterpillar, the Alcon Blue Butterfly tricks ants into feeding and looking after it until it becomes an adult. How does it get away with this deceit? Martin Stevens, Associate Professor of Sensory and Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Exeter and author of Cheats and Deceits, talks about this brilliant example of disguise. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/9780198707899 Martin Stevens is Associate Professor of Sensory and Evolutionary Ecology in the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter. He has authored many research papers, in addition to two textbooks. © Oxford University Press
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