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5. How might associated learning explain why unrelated distasteful or stinging insects have similar colors?
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Certain colors are associated with certain dangers. In associative learning, animals associate one feature of their environment with another. If a predator learns that an insect that looks a certain way (has a certain colour) stings or is distasteful then it will avoid eating other insects with those colours, even those if the insects are the different species and do not sting or are not distasteful. If those two unrelated insect species have the same predatores, then ultimately the individuals that mimic those that sting or are distasteful will leave more descendants than others in their species that do not have those colours and the species will tend to look more and more like those that do.

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