Horizontal black and white bands on, for example skunks and stink badgers are probably a text-book example of warning colouration (or aposematism).— Environment news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
�That is, the handicap principle, aposematism, cryptis and mimicry.— Warren Ellis

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