Looking different 'helps animals to survive'

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Looking different 'helps animals to survive'

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A prime example of an exuberant polymorphism is the Hawaiian Happy-face Spider


In the animal kingdom, everything is not as it seems. Individuals of the same species can look very different from each other – what biologists term ‘polymorphism.’

Sometimes the number of distinct visible forms – ‘exuberant polymorphisms’ – in a single animal population can reach double figures. But why?


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