Community Ecology II: Predators - Crash Course Ecology #5

2012-12-04

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Hank gets to the more violent part of community ecology by describing predation and the many ways prey organisms have developed to avoid it.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Herbivory and Parasitism 1:43

Predatory Adaptation 3:39

Cryptic Coloration 4:25

Mullerian Mimicry 5:43

Batesian Mimicry 6:38

Resources:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37hHBgaZymo&feature=fvwrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGAeRWwQ2mA

http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/predation-herbivory-and-parasitism-13261134

http://necsi.edu/projects/evolution/co-evolution/pred-prey/co-evolution_predator.html

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/birds/hawk-info1.htm

http://www.animalport.com/animals/Antelopes.html

http://largestfastestsmartest.co.uk/animals-with-the-best-sense-of-hearing-in-the-world/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0901_050901_wormparasite.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/science/06hopp.html

http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/horsehairworm.shtml

http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007939.html

http://www.waza.org/en/zoo/choose-a-species/amphibians/salamanders-and-newts/salamandra-salamandra

http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/chronob/BATE1825.htm

http://www.strangescience.net/bates.htm

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/conservation/naturalists/henry-walter-bates-info.htm

http://www.reptilechannel.com/snakes/venomous-snakes/coral-snakes.aspx

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/M/Mimicry.html

Thanks to the Boone and Crockett Club for letting us film the introduction to this video in their headquarters here in Missoula: http://www.boone-crockett.org/about/about_headquarters.asp?area=about

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