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What does aposematic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (zoology, of a coloration or marking) That serves as a warning to predators, as of toxicity, especially falsely.
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Rattlesnakes shake their tail rattles as aposematic warnings.
Clusters amplify the signal of aposematic coloration, and individuals may participate in group regurgitation or displays.
These include various lepidopterans and the African grasshopper, which adopt aposematic coloring as a warning.
Coloration in skunks and stink badgers serves as an aposematic signal to would-be predators.
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.
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.

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