While traveling in Texas, you stumble across a snake with red, yellow, and black bands. You somehow remember that this could be a poisonous coral snake or a harmless milk snake, but you forget how to differentiate them because they both have similar colours and banding patterns. You wisely decide not to pick up the snake. What defence was successful in preventing you from grabbing the snake?
A) Batesian mimicry
B) inducible defences
C) Müllerian mimicry
D) constitutive defence
E) none of the above

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Batesian mimicry is a form of mimicry where a harmless species has evolved to imitate the warning signals of a harmful species directed at a predator of them both, which is what the milk snake does by mimicking the coloration of the venomous coral snake.

While Traveling in Texas, You Stumble Across a Snake with Red