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3 unusual facts about Mimicry


Parrotfish

Juveniles of some tropical species can alter their color temporarily to mimic other species.

Streptanthus breweri

The leaves of the plant sometimes have hardened, orange-pigmented callosities on the blades which are thought to be egg-mimics.

Video game controversies

Contrary to certain rumors, however, neither student had made a Doom level mimicking the school's layout and there is no evidence the pair practiced the massacre in Doom.


Acraea perenna

It is thought to be the main mimicry model for Graphium ridleyanus.

Batesian mimicry

Wickler, W. (1968) Mimicry in Plants and Animals (Translated from the German) McGraw-Hill, New York.

Bematistes elongata

This species is mimicked by Pseudacraea kuenowii gottbergei and Mimacraea charmian.

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay

Early video work concentrated on critical mimicry of material from popular culture, with references to Madonna, American Idol, Tatu, Françoise Hardy and Kylie Minogue.

Bill Lancton

Jay Harvey, from The Indianapolis Star, in reviewing A Tribute To Blue Note, one of Bill's shows, writes: "Lancton evoked the best of Grant Green, Kenny Burrell...Lancton's melody driven solo on Green's Miss Ann's Tempo demonstrated that a distinctive style can be affectionately inhabited without narrow mimicry....on Blue Train, Lancton in particular was able to find a smooth balance of virtuosity and soulfulness in his solo".

Cyclosia

Cyclosia is a genus of zygaenid moth that has a mimicry complex with the Milkweed butterfly.

David Arthur Brown

Welcome to... Brazzaville (Web of Mimicry, 2004), (Zakat, 2005) — best songs, including tracks from the first four albums

Deception in animals

Examples of Batesian mimicry are the several species of butterflies that mimic the toxic Heliconid butterflies.

Desmocerus palliatus

It is often the model for other insects mimicry, an example of this would be Lycomorpha pholus.

Dioptinae

The Dioptinae are an almost exclusively neotropical group of day-flying moths, many of which exhibit bright wing coloration and are involved in mimicry rings with butterflies (especially Ithomiini) and moths of the Sterrhinae subfamily and Arctiidae family.

Dioptis aeliana

It is part of a mimicry complex with Brevioleria aelia (the butterfly that led Bates to name the species), Hyposcada illinissa, Napeogenes sylphis, Oleria gunilla and Oleria ilerdina.

Dioptis pellucida

There is a brown hindwing form, which belongs to a mimicry complex with several Ithomiini species, including Hypoleria lavinia, Ithomia diasia, Oleria amalda and Pseudoscada timna.

Dusky Friarbird

The species is mimicked by the Dusky-brown Oriole, which is almost identical in appearance, a situation that has arisen in many species of orioles and friarbirds that exist in the same habitat.

Emotional contagion

One view developed by Elaine Hatfield et al. is that this can be done through automatic mimicry and synchronization of one’s expressions, vocalizations, postures and movements with those of another person.

Hakim Rawther

He accompanied singer K. J. Yesudas as a session mimicry artist during the period 1979-89.

Hello Kaun? Pehchaan Kaun

The show is hosted by well-known mimicry artist Navin Prabhakar, who first shot to fame from his celebrated appearances in the show "The Great Indian Laughter Challenge" (Season one).

Every week eight artists are called upon to mimic well-known personalities (Johny Lever, Lal Krishna Advani, Manoj Kumar, Salman Khan etc.) and three best mimicry artists are chosen every week.

Marie Dainton

At the Colonial Theatre in New York in March 1909 Dainton appeared in vaudeville, again performing her mimicry of celebrities, including Harry Lauder, Anna Held, Marie Tempest, Marie Lloyd and Mrs Patrick Campbell.

Molecular mimicry

The largest protein database in the world, known as the UniProt database (formerly SwissProt), has shown reports of molecular mimicry becoming more common with expansion of the database.

Müllerian

Müllerian mimicry, a type of mimicry or convergence named after Fritz Müller

Nadodikkattu

It gave way to two sequels, Pattanapravesham (1988) and Akkare Akkare Akkare (1990) known for their excess of mimicry and low-brow slapstick.

Phaeochlaena hazara

The species is part of the tiger stripe mimicry complex and mimics Ithomia iphianassa, Stalachtis calliope and Chetone histrio.

Photuris pennsylvanica

Its primary color is black, but it has two bright-red eyespots on its thorax, as well as yellow edging on its thorax and wing case.

Soundscape

The soundscape is often the subject of mimicry in Timbre-centered music such as Tuvan throat singing.

Swiss Family Guy Robinson

"A wicked talent for vocal mimicry. Freakin' sweet!" – Alison Broverman: National Post

Tere Bin Laden

Sharma knew Singh since their days together at a workshop in the National School of Drama and according to him, Singh was "good at mimicry".

Thirty Cases of Major Zeman

ep 29(1972) Mimikry (Mimicry) - episode about plane hijack, with allusion to the music band Plastic People and young long-haired sympathizers of rock music called máničky.

Vavilovian mimicry

Vavilovian mimicry bears considerable similarity to Batesian mimicry (where a harmless organism mimics a harmful species) in that the weed does not share the properties that give the model its protection, and both the model and the dupe (in this case people) are negatively affected by it.

Venu Madhav

Nerella Venu Madhav, Padmashri winning Ventriloquist (mimicry artist)


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