You are visiting a nature preserve in Costa Rica with a classmate. Your companion comments on the bright colors and beauty of many species of frogs and insects that you encounter on your excursion

Explain to this person the function that the bright colors serve in the context of ecosystem functioning.

What will be an ideal response


Brightly colored prey species are utilizing warning coloration as a way to fend off potential predators. The bright colors inform predators that the prey species either tastes very bad or can actually poison or kill a predator that eats them.

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