Hank gets to the more violent part of community ecology by describing predation and the many ways prey organisms have developed to avoid it.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Herbivory and Parasitism 1:43
Predatory Adaptation 3:39
Cryptic Coloration 4:25
Mullerian Mimicry 5:43
Batesian Mimicry 6:38
Resources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37hHBgaZymo&feature=fvwrel
http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/predation-herbivory-and-parasitism-13261134
http://necsi.edu/projects/evolution/co-evolution/pred-prey/co-evolution_predator.html
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/birds/hawk-info1.htm
http://www.animalport.com/animals/Antelopes.html
http://largestfastestsmartest.co.uk/animals-with-the-best-sense-of-hearing-in-the-world/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0901_050901_wormparasite.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/science/06hopp.html
http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/horsehairworm.shtml
http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007939.html
http://www.waza.org/en/zoo/choose-a-species/amphibians/salamanders-and-newts/salamandra-salamandra
http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/chronob/BATE1825.htm
http://www.strangescience.net/bates.htm
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/conservation/naturalists/henry-walter-bates-info.htm
http://www.reptilechannel.com/snakes/venomous-snakes/coral-snakes.aspx
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/M/Mimicry.html
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