Pufferfish Mimicry

Number of predators approaching models painted to resemble pufferfish (Canthigaster valentini) across a range of similarities (resemblance)

Usage

Pufferfish

Format

A data frame with 20 observations on the following 2 variables.

resemblance

a numeric vector

predators

a numeric vector

Source

Caley, M.J. and D. Schluter. 2003. Predators favour mimicry in a tropical reef fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences 270: 667-672.

References

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/270/1516/667.full.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canthigaster_valentini

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=6544

Examples

str(Pufferfish)
#> 'data.frame':	20 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ resemblance: int  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 ...
#>  $ predators  : int  2 6 5 5 0 3 11 6 8 11 ...
xyplot(predators ~ jitter(resemblance, amount = 0.1), Pufferfish)

Pufferfish
#>    resemblance predators
#> 1            1         2
#> 2            1         6
#> 3            1         5
#> 4            1         5
#> 5            1         0
#> 6            1         3
#> 7            1        11
#> 8            2         6
#> 9            2         8
#> 10           2        11
#> 11           2         7
#> 12           3        11
#> 13           3         9
#> 14           3        15
#> 15           3        15
#> 16           4        11
#> 17           4        11
#> 18           4        11
#> 19           4        18
#> 20           4        14