The Alcon Blue Butterfly: a master class in animal deception
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The Alcon Blue Butterfly: a master class in animal deception
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 ...
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