(1) Mimicry may occasionally arise in one sex because the differences which distinguish it from the other sex happen to be such as to afford a starting-point for the resemblance. Here the male is at no disadvantage as compared with the female, and the rarity of mimicry in the male alone (e.g. Cethosia) is evidence that the great predominance of female mimicry is not to be thus explained.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
The hostile parties had played at war so long that they had forgotten that it was play; and now were actually inspired with the emotions which they had formerly simulated. Under the leadership of their chieftains, Halvor Reitan and Viggo Hook, they held councils of war, sent out scouts, planned midnight surprises, and fought at times mimic battles. I say mimic battles, because no one was ever killed; but broken heads and bruised limbs many a one carried home from these engagements, and unhappily one boy, named Peer Oestmo, had an eye put out by an arrow.英文原著 · 《Boyhood in Norway》
A seemingly irreconcilable contradiction to the mimicry theory is presented in the following cases, which were known to Bates, who, however, never succeeded in bringing them into line with the principle of mimicry.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
An example is afforded by the Oriental Nymphaline, Cethosia, in which the males of some species are rough mimics of the brown Danaines. In some of the orb-weaving spiders the males mimic ants, while the much larger females are non-mimetic. When both sexes mimic, it is very common in butterflies and is also known in moths, for the females to be better and often far better mimics than the males.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
(5) In very variable species with sexes alike, mimicry can be rapidly evolved in both sexes out of very small beginnings. Thus the reddish marks which are common in many individuals of Limenitis arthemis were almost certainly the starting-point for the evolution of the beautifully mimetic L. archippus. Nevertheless in such cases, although there is no reason to suspect any greater variability, the female is commonly a somewhat better mimic than the male and often a very much better mimic. Wallace's principle seems here to supply the obvious interpretation.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
(6) When the difference between the patterns of the model and presumed ancestor of the mimic is very great, the female is often alone mimetic; when the difference is comparatively small, both sexes are commonly mimetic. The Nymphaline genus Hypolimnas is a good example. In Hypolimnas itself the females mimic Danainae with patterns very different from those preserved by the non-mimetic males: in the sub-genus Euralia, both sexes resemble the black and white Ethiopian Danaines with patterns not very dissimilar from that which we infer to have existed in the non-mimetic ancestor.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
"Hey, Ross, you know, I think we had a moment before." * [MIMICS ROSS] "Yeah. Ahem. Me too." * [IN NORMAL VOICE] "Well, but I'm not sure I really want to do anything about it." * [MIMICS ROSS] "Yeah. Ahem. Me neither." * [IN NORMAL VOICE] "Should we just live together...美剧 · 《Friends》
They don't want their competitors to be able to mimic them.美剧 · 《Billions》
And third, we believe strongly that we do not want to mimic nature but instead be inspired by biology, And third, we believe strongly that we do not want to mimic nature but instead be inspired by biology,演讲 · 《The sticky wonder of gecko feet ~ Robert Full》