Mimicry

Technical Definition of Batesian Mimicry Sentence Definition Batesian mimicry is an ecological phenomenon in which a harmless organism copies the physical appearance of a harmful or irritating organism in order to deter predators. Origin and Use Batesian mimicry is named after the English naturalist, H.W. Bates, who discovered the phenomenon in the 1800s (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, 2012). The term is used by ecologists when classifying and comparing similar looking organisms. Examples Seen in Nature Batesian mimicry is like hiding candy in a can of Spam so your friends won’t take it. For example, some types of harmless flies have yellow and black or brown and black stripes that resemble those of stinging insects like bees and wasps (Figure 1). Because the organisms look alike, predators are likely to avoid the harmless flies with the assumption that they can sting. Other examples of Batesian mimicry include some species of…

Although the only known individual of his species that can mimic human speech, Koshik is capable of accurately reproducing fundamental frequencies and formants in Korean. Koshik is able to mimic human speech by placing his trunk inside of his mouth to alter the shape of his vocal tract in order to produce different vocalizations. Speech mimicry has been hypothesized to function in developing similarities between individuals that are directly related or live in the same social environment.…

Analysis: Facial Mimicry In 6-7-Year-Olds Misael Alvarado Jr Keiser University Analysis: Facial Mimicry In 6-7-Year-Olds The article “Facial Mimicry in 6-7-Year-Old Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorder and ADHD” is a study by a group of researchers (Peter Deschamps, Nicolette Munsters, Leon Kenemans, Dennis Schutter, Walter Matthys) who aim to find the prevalence of facial mimicry, defined as a response of emotion that is brought upon by the another’s emotional state, in children between…

Studies reviewed by Bons, Rommelse, Scheepers, and Buitelaar (2010) and conducted by McIntosh, Reichmann-Decker, Winkielman and Wilbarger (2006) examined motor empathy in autism. Focusing on rapid facial mimicry, both studies found that autistic children showed a delayed reaction to the expression of emotion, yet they still were able to produce congruent facial expressions. Bons et al. (2010) suggest a voluntary facial mimicry system may explain how individuals with autism are able to mimic.…

The term Mimicry underlines the gap between the norm of civility presented by European Enlightenment and its colonial imitation in distorted form. .This notion is based on Foucault‘s term that was based on Kant‘s notion. Bhabha‘s term mimicry is a part of a larger concept of visualizing the postcolonial situation as a kind of binary opposition between authority and oppression, authorization and de-authorization. He states ahead that all modes of imposition including the demand on the colonized…

students, not professionals in mimicking others. Although confederates attended a brief session detailing the concept of behavioral mimicry and were taught specific actions to observe in their partner and embody in their own actions, their quality of mimicry likely varied from confederate to confederate. Depending on the actions of these trained students, some of the pairs may have experienced more or less mimicry than the others, which may have affected how effective they were. Additionally,…

novel. The characters in Nervous Conditions who have not had the same experience of travel in the west find the desire of those who have returned to impose their English values, language, and religion on everyone else confusing and unpleasant. “When colonial discourse encourages the colonial subject to ‘mimic’ the colonizer, by adopting the colonizer’s cultural habits, assumptions, institutions and values, the result is never a simple reproduction of those traits. Rather, the result is a…

Submitted by : KLEIN KENNY VETTOOR SHARDA UNIVERSITY INCLUSION OF BIO MIMICRY IN SKYSCRAPPER INTRODUCTION Biomimicry and biomimetics come from the Greek words bios, meaning life, andmimesis, also meaning to imitate. Biomimicry is the examination of nature, itsmodels, systems, and processes for the purpose of gaining inspiration in order tosolve manmade problems. Biomimetic Architecture is a contemporary philosophy ofarchitecture that seeks solutions for sustainability in nature, not by…

Annette Cosway strives for acceptance up until her death, but her difference excludes her from both societies. Antoinette explains, ‘my mother, so without a doubt not English, but no white nigger either.’ Bhabha’s theory believes that the ‘not quite’ in being ‘almost the same, but not quite’ is where the power lies in the mimicry of the colonisers: ‘Colonial mimicry is the desire for a reformed, recognizable Other, as a subject of a difference that is almost the same, but not quite. […] the…

Ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia are both examples of cultures that performed sexual acts as a form of worship. The intent for the utilization of these sexual encounters was to mimic events from their cultural myths to ensure the continuity of that event. This mimicry can be categorized as a form of sympathetic magic, or a type of magic predicated on the belief that an event can be affected through an object or act symbolizing it. For ancient Egyptians the purpose of these acts was to…