1. AIM: SWBAT distinguish between the various kinds of mimicry in the biological world
Please Do Now: If animals are capable of gaining an advantage by communicating dishonestly, why haven’t all animals evolved to be “liars”.

2. Agenda Do Now Video Mimicry/Camouflage Notes Data Analysis
Reading/Annotation

3. What is camouflage?
the use of any combination of materials or coloration for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see (crypsis), or by disguising them as something else (mimicry)

11. What is Mimicry?
mimicry is the similarity of one species to another which increases the fitness one or both species in areas where they are both found
It is the result of the environment selecting for that similarity over many generations

12. What do we call organisms involved in mimicry?
Mimics are the organisms that have evolved in imitation of something else
Models are the species that are imitated

13. Types of Mimicry
Batesian: the mimic shares signals similar to the model, but does not have the attribute that makes it undesirable to predators

14. Types of Mimicry
Mullerian: when two or more species have very similar warning signals and both share genuine anti-predation attributes (more likely predators will learn to avoid them)

15. Types of Mimicry
Mertensian: unusual cases where deadly prey mimic a less dangerous species

16. Types of Mimicry
Wasmanian: the mimic resembles a model along with which it lives in a nest or colony

17. Types of Mimicry
Gilbertian: potential host/prey drives away its parasite/predator by mimicking it

18. Types of Mimicry
Luring Mimicry: predator employing signals which draw its potential prey towards it by the promise of food

19. Types of Mimicry
Brood-Parasite: a situation where a parasite mimics its own host

20. Types of Mimicry
Wicklerian: the mimic resembling a species that is a mutualist of the model

21. Types of Mimicry
Cryptic: the predator mimics an organism that its prey is indifferent to

22. Types of Mimicry
Inter-sexual: the male of a species mimic the female of the species to sneak matings with the female

23. Worksheet 20 minutes to complete, it will be collected
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Match the scenarios described with the type of mimicry we discussed today
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24. Example
Australian Cuttlefish (a relative of the Octopus), can be alpha-males, beta-males, and females. Alpha-males fight for the rights to a harem of females. Beta-males, instead of fighting, pretend to be females, and stay with the harem while the alphas are fighting, and then have sex with them.

25. Example
Australian Cuttlefish (a relative of the Octopus), can be alpha-males, beta-males, and females. Alpha-males fight for the rights to a harem of females. Beta-males, instead of fighting, pretend to be females, and stay with the harem while the alphas are fighting, and then have sex with them.
This is an example of inter-sexual mimicry because a member of one gender is the model for a mimic of the other.

26. WYNTKFTQ Forms of communications
Examples of advantages and disadvantages of those forms of communication
Examples of deceitful communication
Why we trust any communication
Types of mimicry (especially, Batesian and Mullerian)