The “confusion effect” occurs ____

a. when one animal flees a threat and others in the group do the same
b. when animals group and present a solid front to predators
c. when there is a “selfish herd”


d. in a hierarchal living group
e. in the mimicking of another species to escape predation


ANSWER: a

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