VMartin
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I will restate:
This is all entirely irrelevant to the question of whether or not ant mimicry will deter some predators. Obviously it does.
I thought it would be obvious that I was not referring to "all" predators, but apparently I was wrong.
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It would be fine if you gave some researches supporting your belief. Because facts are these:
In Csikis' research of inhalts of stomachs of 2523 birds
ants were found in stomachs of 51 from 60 different birds species from different families.
In stomachs of specialist Picus vividis were found cca 700 pieces of Formica pratensis, Lasius niger 400, 400, 500, 500, 600 and Myrmica laeviondis cca 600.
In perdix perdix were found 250, 250 pieces of Lasius niger.
The almost same results were obtained in Europe, North America and Tropics.
Groebbels "Der Vogel...Atmungswelt and Nahrughswelt" 234 pages, Berlin 1933.
Ants are readily eaten by birds and there is no reason to suppose that ants' mimics are protected.
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