This dung or carrion mimicry attracts flesh flies, rove beetles, and even mosquitoes, all of which have been observed with pollen on them. |
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The cutesy, mincing vocals are dotted with ill-advised wailing and occasional outright mimicry of dudes like Beck. |
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The scornful mimicry of a supposedly distinctive accent may not be as bad-minded as Bernard jeering at the speech-patterns of others. |
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Take the oft-cited classic case of Batesian mimicry involving the dead-ringer resemblance between monarch and viceroy butterflies. |
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The finding may make scientists rethink the laws of Batesian mimicry, as the copycat safety strategy is known. |
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Although widely accepted and taught as early as elementary school, Batesian mimicry has remained unconfirmed. |
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Nevertheless, one must consider who shot these images and allowed such an open, playful, form of mimicry. |
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From rain dances to bhangra, skits to mimicry, the employees rewrote office entertainment rules. |
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Monomane takes imitation through mimicry and beyond to caricature with comic effect. |
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They negotiate the dicey line between mimicry and mockery partly by dint of fascination with details. |
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Skitcom performers, especially those with skills at mimicry, typically disappear into their roles. |
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No other kind of entertainment programmes such as mimicry and ganamela could be conducted along with the magic show, due to the props. |
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The technique they use to construct the documentary seems to me to be a loving reference to your work, rather than mimicry or a take-off. |
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All art is but facsimile of nature and the art of imitating someone or something classically in order to entertain is mimicry. |
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Foxx can be subtle and funny here, but his performance often feels like a rather hollow if impressive feat of mimicry. |
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Hoffman duplicates Capote's unusual voice and mannerisms with remarkable skill, but the performance is much more than mimicry. |
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We don't find Mount Rushmores in biology, we find phenomena such as mimicry and camouflage. |
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Across the genus as a whole, the evolution of mimicry seems to be associated with increased rates of species diversification. |
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Those who dislike any form of martial mimicry or organised religion do not want to see their children parading and marching to church in uniform. |
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Impeccable diction, timing, and mimicry contributed to memorable character-monologues. |
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The highlight of the day, however, was a mimicry show by cine actor, Jayaram, which left the students in raptures. |
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For example, have allopatric populations of a parasitic species independently evolved egg or nestling mimicry of the same host species? |
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Actors follow the set's mimicry, all meticulously reverent without adding a jot of originality to their filmic templates. |
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The mimicry programmes may be crude, but they are harmless and provide innocent fun to the audience. |
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Even with the electronic, sampling age in full swing, it's amazing that the art of mimicry still taps that transforming and ancient power. |
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After the first broadcast, which you recall was on mimicry of Australian magpies. |
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Add in his gift for mimicry and he can make a fool of anyone, from fox hunters to Kilroy, Joss Stone to the Botox brigade. |
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Prasad rues that during the nascent stages of mimics, a well-appreciated performance on the stage was the ultimate dream of a mimicry artiste. |
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It may involve mimicry, he said, as dolphins are unsurpassed in imitative abilities among nonhuman animals. |
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So far, no cases of scent mimicry have been reported for food-deceptive species although it occurs in cases of sexual mimicry. |
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The way one modulates the voice, its pitch, tone and tenor to speak to different persons is nothing but mimicry. |
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By juxtaposing man and ape in identical squatting poses, these capitals explicitly evoke the simian trait of mimicry. |
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It seemed that the nineties brought mimicry and bricolage to new heights in pop music. |
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Naturally, they bridle at suggestions that their pursuit of a European identity is mimicry. |
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There were lunging valleys of dense wood, the mimicry of a lush and verdurous Costa Rican island without the whimsy of a foreign land. |
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We predicted, based on the egg mimicry hypothesis, that robins and catbirds would eject white cuckoo eggs and accept mimetic blue cuckoo eggs. |
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He gave us the first quantitative theories of sexual selection, mimicry, polymorphism, evolution of recombination rates, and supergenes. |
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He performed with various other companies, moving on to work with experimental mime which improved his mimicry skills. |
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Comedian John McBlain is convinced he will never get a mainstream television show because his mimicry of the province's politicians is too near the knuckle. |
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The audience simply fell about in uncontrollable laughter as this new comic with the gift of mimicry and languages took them on a journey exploring human foibles. |
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In the first case the coloration is called mimicry, in the second, mimesis, or protective coloration. |
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Mani's mimicry skills were discovered by the late Fr. Abel of Kalabhavan. |
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As elegy for them, a scratchy recording suddenly blossomed into perfect mimicry of the woodlark's song. |
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He talked of how the Kottayam bus stand reminded him of his mimicry days, since he even used to sleep there, after having missed the last bus to Kochi. |
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And for that, you have to go back to mimicry but a different sort of mimicry from the one in which edible mimics hide among poisonous models. |
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We can feel the rising revolt in this voice that teases his Ferré to the point of mimicry. |
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We cannot believe our ears when we hear such mimicry of the ideas and even the language of the current tenant of the White House. |
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Edward William Godwin designed a Japanese sideboard in 1867 Europe, renewing a trend towards the light mimicry of Oriental ware. |
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This grafting on of a new system, born out of mimicry, also carried through to constitutional matters. |
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Here, one gets the impression that dullness, pragmatism and mimicry prevail. |
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We were also wary of indulging in too much mimicry, which might detract from what we seek to convey. |
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The atmosphere was positively Orwellian, with mimicry and lies the common currency of political discourse. |
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In the brand arena, success usually begets mimicry, and Rituals is no exception. |
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Transposition, mimicry, subversion and adulteration are a few aspects of the strategy employed by Picasso towards his favourite painters. |
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A large part of the world follows the production pattern of developed countries out of mimicry, without seeing the dangers. |
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It's also true that friends and colleagues in the workplace are sometimes very supportive of people with disabilities, but that fades in the face of mimicry and mockery. |
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Actually blinded by prosthetics, he walks the fine line between acting and mimicry, giving a performance that is neither stifled by imitation, nor unconvincing. |
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So there's some product mimicry, but real mimicry is impossible. |
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Francis gives a similar explanation for the exceptional mimicry of mockingbirds, suggesting that mimicry itself was not favored by natural selection. |
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She discovered the gift of mimicry by studying people in the street and doing impressions of them through the window of their house or performing sketches for her mother. |
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It is slander if it takes the form of spoken words, gestures or mimicry. |
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In his show he exploited a talent for mimicry that manifested itself in a Moira Anderson imitation when he was seven, and then in wicked parodies of his teachers. |
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Robert Gozon's voice borders with mimicry, and this thin family tie is no less unpleasant. |
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They say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery, but I still think I'm being mocked when he acts just like me. |
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That mimicry is intended to give the babies the familiar sound of their mother's voice, as they would have heard it when they were safe in her amniotic fluid. |
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They were reinforced in this view by Alastair's jocular banter, his easy resort to mimicry and his habit of taking the Monday morning editorial meeting with a gin and tonic in his hand. |
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Rhythmic texts fitted out with inimitable gestures and mimicry, they deal with themes as varied as happiness, climate change, police, Wii-Fit, time-wasters, education and several other topics. |
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That means clicking works both as Mullerian mimicry and Batesian mimicry, says Barber. |
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He was adept at mimicry and storytelling, and was reputedly quite good at charades. |
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Like the compradore elites, the revolutionaries of the former colonies are hamstrung by their hollow mimicry. |
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Universal dances in the Philippines are found at societal functions such as rituals, mimicry, life cycle and parties. |
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Some have mimicry down to such a fine art that different individuals mimic different models, reducing the chance that a predator will realise it is being systematically fooled. |
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He enjoyed mimicry and popular entertainment, lacked a clear, specific sense of what he wanted to become, and yet knew he wanted fame. |
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When animal mimicry goes really wrong they don't just look like something that a predator would ignore, they look like lunch. |
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This once very colourful fish is now making itself green through mimicry. |
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Pirate spiders use aggressive mimicry in their capture of spiders, by producing vibratory stimuli on webs, thereby inducing a predatory response of the resident. |
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This pattern is typical in cases of Batesian mimicry, in which the mimic is relatively scarce, palatable and unprotected while the model is abundant and wellprotected. |
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The paper, 'Do aposematism and Batesian mimicry require bright colours? |
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Owner Mona is ably assisted by offsider Bert and the wonderful receptionist Gulliver the cockatoo with a penchant for perfect human mimicry of 'Can I help you? |
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Spike Milligan later noted that Sellers was very proficient on the drums and might have remained a jazz drummer, had he lacked his skills in mimicry and improvisation. |
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These nest observations are only the second published for the cinereous mourner, and they fit with the proposal that mourners exhibit Batesian mimicry. |
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He developed his mimicry and improvisational skills during a spell in Ralph Reader's wartime Gang Show entertainment troupe, which toured Britain and the Far East. |
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