Timeline for What would be a plausible reason for a prey animal to mimic its own predator?
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| Feb 1, 2020 at 23:20 | comment | added | elemtilas | @JulianEgner -- I would imagine that the dogs, evolving along with the sheep, would continue to see them as sheep. They're in close, constant contact after all, and are trained by the shepherds to treat them as sheep. | |
| Feb 1, 2020 at 18:33 | comment | added | Julian Egner | One point we forgot so far: how are the weep seen by the sheperds' dog? If the dog sees the weep as wolf, we might have a problem here... | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 16:41 | comment | added | elemtilas | @JulianEgner -- Oh, right! Sorry I misunderstood you. And indeed: that was my point! The wolves see these sheep as wolves and so avoid them; shepherds see a kind of sheep that doesn't get attacked by wolves and they can take a nap. | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 13:37 | comment | added | Julian Egner | I meant that their predators do not recognize them as prey, while humans dont see them as predators (which is good, because humans tend to kill big predators) | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 1:08 | comment | added | elemtilas | @JulianEgner -- True that, though I suppose that a mimic who can only fool humans and not their own predators is not a very successful mimic! | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 21:09 | comment | added | Julian Egner | And do not forget that most Animals have other sight that humans. So it is totally possible thet a wolf will see a weep as a wolf, while humans will not see a similarity between wolf and weep. Hunters wear orange because the animals will see that the same way like green, but for humans it is a totally other color. | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 16:48 | history | answered | elemtilas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |