Community Ecology II: Predators - Crash Course Ecology #5

Hank gets to the more violent part of community ecology by describing predation and the many ways prey organisms have developed to avoid it. TABLE OF CONTENTS Herbivory and Parasitism 1:43 Predatory Adaptation 3:39 Cryptic Coloration 4:25 Mullerian Mimicry 5:43 Batesian Mimicry 6:38 Resources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37hHBgaZymo&feature=fvwrel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGAeRWwQ2mA http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/predation-herbivory-and-parasitism-13261134 http://necsi.edu/projects/evolution/co-evolution/pred-prey/co-evolution_predator.html http://animals.howstuffworks.com/birds/hawk-info1.htm http://www.animalport.com/animals/Antelopes.html http://largestfastestsmartest.co.uk/animals-with-the-best-sense-of-hearing-in-the-world/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0901_050901_wormparasite.html http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/science/06hopp.html http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/horsehairworm.shtml http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007939.html http://www.waza.org/en/zoo/choose-a-species/amphibians/salamanders-and-newts/salamandra-salamandra http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/chronob/BATE1825.htm http://www.strangescience.net/bates.htm http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/conservation/naturalists/henry-walter-bates-info.htm http://www.reptilechannel.com/snakes/venomous-snakes/coral-snakes.aspx http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/M/Mimicry.html Thanks to the Boone and Crockett Club for letting us film the introduction to this video in their headquarters here in Missoula: http://www.boone-crockett.org/about/about_headquarters.asp?area=about Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thecrashcourse/ CC Kids: http://www.youtube.com/crashcoursekids