MoistMartini t1_itbtrji wrote
Reply to comment by hawkwings in is it the case that poisonous animals tend to be colourful and if so why is it that they tend to evolve to be colourful moreso then other animals? by HumbleProdiGenius
An additional cool detail that can help understand that this is not a coordinated mechanism but a matter of selection, is that sometimes the non-poisonous/venomous species will evolve to look exactly like a poisonous/venomous one. Plenty of insects that take the color scheme of wasps, for example. This is just because the individuals in a population that most closely resemble a wasp (due to mutations that happen over several generations) are less likely to be eaten by predators that fear wasps and so are more likely to reproduce
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