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Won't predators learn eventually not to get fooled by that?

• deleted 6y ago
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• xu_ituairo 6y ago
  Do you mean at an evolutionary time scale or within their life times?
  • lukas099 6y ago
    I think both would occur, as long as the particular predator has a sophisticated enough brain to learn this. On an evolutionary timescale, there would probably be an arms race of sorts leading to an equilibrium of predator/prey phenotypes.
• commonturtle 6y ago
  Depends. If there isn't a strong enough selection pressure (there is plenty of wild prey, they only rarely attack cattle) then they wouldn't learn to ignore the eyespots for many generations.