article_snippet.sent: While scientists have long suspected the role played by eye-spots found on the wings of many butterflies were an example of mimicry, it has never been clearly tested.
article_snippet.sent: While scientists have long suspected the role played by eye-spots found on the wings of many butterflies were an example of mimicry, it has never been clearly tested .
article_snippet.sent: a new piece of research by biologists at Jyväskylä University in Finland say that eye-spots on the wings of butterflies do in fact mimic the eyes of larger and more threatening species, like owls.
article_snippet.sent: Eye spots are a common feature on butterfly wings, like the Bycyclus anyana butterfly above, but scientists have been divided over whether scientists were intended to mimic other predators or simply confuse predators . '
article_snippet.sent: Many species of butterfly have eye-spots as part of the pattern on Many species of butterfly wings.
highlights_snippet.sent: Scientists have long debated whether butterfly eye spots were an example of Batesian mimicry or if the patterns simply served to confuse predators .