| Rattlesnakes shake their tail rattles as aposematic warnings. |
| Alternatively, they may be used to signal to predators, the classic example being aposematic coloration in species that have noxious defenses, such as skunks. |
| Coloration in skunks and stink badgers serves as an aposematic signal to would-be predators. |
| These include various lepidopterans and the African grasshopper, which adopt aposematic coloring as a warning. |
| Some types of caterpillars are indeed poisonous or distasteful and their bright coloring is aposematic. |
| Many animals and insects that taste awful, sting or can otherwise turn a good day sour have adapted this warning-label strategy, known as aposematic coloration. |
