That is totally bizarre. The whole point of mimicry is to gain protection from predation. |
Therefore, predators who learned to associate either the bright colors of the less toxic or more toxic model frog species will avoid the mimic of the less toxic model frog. So, the mimic of the less toxic frog receives double the protection from predation. |
What we found is that predators are using stimulus generalization, which is a really old psychology theory. When they learned on the more toxic frog, they generalized. |