Abstract
Abstract A large variety of animals have developed facial likenesses to common vertebrates, presumably serving to deter attack by their predators. Likenesses run the gamut from unbelievable artistic perfection to ridiculous (to us) caricatures. These images of mock predators may either remain as a constantly visible deterrent or be flashed when an attack is pressed home and combined with rhythmic display simulating counterattack, and a hissing sound capable of startling the predator long enough to enhance escape possibilities. The phenomenon of mimicry is strongly linked to that of the in‐traspecific display, especially as the perceptual system of the animals involved become increasingly complex. Thus even the displays of such formidable adversaries as the lion, tiger, falcon and cobra may be seen on closer inspection to involve false faces, often supernormal, and presumably have some signalling function as well. Although mimicry, the evolution of resemblances to other species for protection from predator...
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