The monarch butterfly is poisonous to birds

and so birds avoid eating them. Viceroy
butterflies look very similar to monarch
butterflies but are not poisonous. Because they
look like monarch butterflies, birds also do not
eat viceroy butterflies. This is an example of



a. resource partitioning.
b. competitive exclusion.
c. mimicry.
d. camouflage.
e. commensalism


C

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