Animal Mimicry in Nature and Carpenter's The Thing

In this episode I'm sharing types of animal mimicry. From owl butterflies to cuckoo birds, to the "thing" from space. I discuss defensive mimicry, aggressive mimicry and even mimicry humans have contributed to. It turns out there's no greater inspiration for horror than the natural world. Research from this episode is from my ol' pal Wikipedia and C. Blut, J. Wilibrandt, D. Fels, E.I. Girgel & K. Linau's 'The 'sparkle' in fake eyes - the protective effect of mimic eyespots in lepidoptera' in the journal Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata Dream/Flashback effect from Zany Madcap Follow the podcast on Twitter @FactandSciFi Read the blog factandsciencefiction.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Animal Mimicry in Nature and Carpenter's The Thing is an episode from Fact and Science Fiction by Fact & Science Fiction.

This episode is 25:50 long.

This episode was published on Aug 30, 2019.

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