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Samantha V, Jacob K, Emily H

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Why do Sonoran coral snakes, the Sonoran Mountain kingsnake, the milk snake, and the Sonoran shovel nosed snake look so similar?

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One of the snakes, the Coral snakes is venomous and the others follow the Batesian mimicry, which is when they develop similar appearances so they come off to predators as the original venomous snake.

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The Sonoran Coral snake is all over the deserts, while the other snakes only take up sections of the area, so this confuses the predators of which snake is which, especially since the other snakes aren’t as populated.

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The snakes live basically around the same region so the non-venomous snakes adapted over time to mimic the appearance of the venomous snake, so that their predators would be confused to which snake is venomous or not.

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They barley get consumed by their predators because they know that one of them are venomous. They get consumed less than 0.05 by all of their predators which include Raptors, Long tailed-weasel and Badger.

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Sonoran Coral snakes are poisonous, which led to mimicry from other snake species, since the predators tend to avoid poisonous species for their own safety.

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The one on the left is the Coral and right is Milk.

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The venomous one: