Late, great geographers.(Henry Walter Bates)(Brief Article)

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Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892)

British naturalist and long-term insect-catcher in the Amazonian Basin, Bates first identified animal mimicry

What is Henry Walter Bates famous for? Bates' most well-known discovery is the principle of Batesian mimicry -- when an animal disguises itself as another more dangerous species in self-defence. He made the discovery on finding two similarly marked but unrelated families of Brazilian forest butterflies during his epic Ama...

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