Hvorfor efterligner nogle edderkopper myrer? Og hvordan snyder giftige frøer og sommerfugle rovdyr kun ved at bruge farver? Jo, I Amazonas handler overlevelse ikke kun om camouflage – men også om bedrag, og i denne episode dykker vi endnu gang ned i mimicry: Hvordan dyr snyder hinanden i amazonas! I episoden kan du høre om:• Edderkopper der ligner myrer for at undgå rovdyr• Edderkopper der efterligner myrer for at snyde myrer• Edderkopper der bygger kæmpe falske monsteredderkopper i deres spind• Giftige pilegiftfrøer og sommerfugle med stærke advarselsfarver• Sommerfugle der efterligner giftige arter uden selv at være giftigeGod fornøjelse! Billeder af Zygy, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Vis M, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Vienskabelige kilder Keith R. Willmott, Julia C. Robinson Willmott, Marianne Elias, Chris D. Jiggins; Maintaining mimicry diversity: optimal warning colour patterns differ among microhabitats in Amazonian clearwing butterflies. Proc Biol Sci 1 May 2017; 284 (1855): 20170744. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0744 Cushing, Paula. (2012). Spider-Ant Associations: An Updated Review of Myrmecomorphy, Myrmecophily, and Myrmecophagy in Spiders. Psyche. 2012. 10.1155/2012/151989. Bernarde, P. S., Pucca, M. B., Mota-da-Silva, A., da Fonseca, W. L., de Almeida, M. R. N., de Oliveira, I. S., Cerni, F. A., Gobbi Grazziotin, F., Sartim, M. A., Sachett, J., Wen, F. H., Moura-da-Silva, A. M., & Monteiro, W. M. (2021). Bothrops bilineatus: An arboreal pitviper in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest. Frontiers in Immunology, 12, Article 778302. Andre kilder: https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.778302 https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/henry-walter-bates-amazon-butterflies.html https://worldrainforests.com/0306.htm https://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2025/butterflies.html https://atmos.earth/ecological-wisdom/aposematism-and-the-beauty-of-awareness/ https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/poison-dart-frog/ https://www.snexplores.org/article/poison-dart-frog-transport-toxins-skin https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/species/poison-dart-frog/ https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/blog/inside-nature-featured-creature-glass-wing-butterfly/ https://andeangreattreks.com/blog/insects-of-the-amazon-rainforest/ https://www.heliconius.org/biology/mimicry/ https://www.rainforestexpeditions.com/deception-in-the-jungle-the-ant-mimicking-spider-aphantochilus-rogersi/ https://www.rainforestexpeditions.com/if-it-looks-like-an-ant-and-smells-like-an-ant-batesian-mimicry-in-the-amazon-jungle/ https://www.livescience.com/animals/spiders/tiny-spiders-that-build-giant-puppet-decoys-from-disembodied-prey-discovered-in-peru-and-philippines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batesian_mimicry