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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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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.

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