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 colors and banding patterns.You wisely decide not to pick up the snake.What defense was successful in preventing you from grabbing the snake?
A)constitutive defense
B)Müllerian mimicry
C)Batesian mimicry
D)inducible defenses
E)none of the above

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Batesian mimicry is a form of mimicry in which a harmless species resembles a toxic or distasteful species to deceive predators. In this scenario, the harmless milk snake is mimicking the appearance of the poisonous coral snake in order to deter predators from attacking it. As a result, the successful defense mechanism is Batesian mimicry, which prevented the person from grabbing the snake.

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