Some types of caterpillars are indeed poisonous or distasteful and their bright coloring is aposematic. |
Coloration in skunks and stink badgers serves as an aposematic signal to would-be predators. |
Arthropods smaller than 1 mm, ants, isopods, and arthropods with aposematic colorations were excluded from the counts because these are rarely consumed by insectivorous birds. |
To further investigate the effects of prey contrast on predator behavior, I conducted an experiment with young chicks as predators on live aposematic and nonaposematic prey. |
Experimentation has shown that certain birds and mammals, at least, are capable of acquiring and retaining knowledge of some aposematic mechanisms from a single experience. |
Additionally, taxonomically troubling taxa such as Crataegus makes identification and quantification of aposematic species extremely difficult. |