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Science News, August 25, 2007 by William K. Hayes
In "Moths mimic 'Don't eat me' sounds" (SN: 6/23/07, p. 397), the study is reported as the "first confirmed acoustic example of classic defensive mimicry." Not so. In 1986, Matthew P. Rowe and colleagues published in Ethology an elegant study demonstrating that the burrowing owl's hiss is acoustic defensive mimicry of the rattlesnake's rattle.
WILLIAM K. HAYES,
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY, LOMA LINDA, CALIF.
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