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THE ADVANTAGES OF RESEMBLANCE

The picture on the top
belongs to a bee, and the
one below belongs to a fly.
Owing to this resemblance,
enemies of the fly stay away
from it thinking that it is a bee.
In addition to the resemblance
of the fly to the bee, it has also
a buzzing feature just like
bees. Moreover, when attacked
by an enemy, this fly takes the
aggressive position of bees by
lifting its wings upwards and
bending its body forward.
The Viceroy butterfly on the left
tastes good to birds. Yet, its
similarity to the Monarch
butterfly (above) largely protects
it from the threats of birds.

The savage Aspidontus fish benefits from its resemblance to the Cleaner fish (in the
picture below both are seen one on top of one another). It comes near to the fish that
hope to be cleaned up and tears pieces from their tails and fins.

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