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Does this mean that predators thought of both the foxes and the skunks as real skunks or not? I guess they didn't drag the both away as they looked like real skunks, but a suspicious thing is if the predators considered body coloration of skunks, why did they avoid the stuffed skunks colored gray, not the original color of black and white? Is it because they had seen both gray and "black and white" among skunks?
mogo1-26
ex)According to a wildlife researcher, Jennifer Hunter, predators with experience of skunks avoid them both because of coloration and their distinctive body shape. She wanted to know how predators know a skunk is a skunk. She prepared lots of stuffed black and white skunks and gray foxes, which were about the same size. She dyed the stuffed skunks gray and the foxes black and white. She then placed the animals at many sites around California. In places where skunks were common, predators such as bears and mountain lions wouldn’t attempt to drag away the blackandwhite foxes as well as the gray skunks.
mogo1-26
ex)According to a wildlife researcher, Jennifer Hunter, predators with experience of skunks avoid them both because of coloration and their distinctive body shape. She wanted to know how predators know a skunk is a skunk. She prepared lots of stuffed black and white skunks and gray foxes, which were about the same size. She dyed the stuffed skunks gray and the foxes black and white. She then placed the animals at many sites around California. In places where skunks were common, predators such as bears and mountain lions wouldn’t attempt to drag away the blackandwhite foxes as well as the gray skunks.