Animals don’t just put on costumes to scamper away from predators. With the right disguise, these impostors turn the tables on an unwitting victim.
While most mimicry in the animal kingdom is designed to obscure or deter other animals, some predators have evolved to use mimicry to get food, appearing to be food themselves, or something else equally attractive to their prey. This is called aggressive mimicry, and below are ten fine examples of deadly impostors.
Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys spp.)
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