Mimicry involving no learning opportunity for predator due to prey lethality leads to:
Mertensian mimicry addresses the learning problem created by extremely lethal prey. A predator killed during its first sampling event cannot retain or transmit learned avoidance through its own later choices. The hypothesis proposes that a deadly species gains protection by resembling a less dangerous but still noxious model that predators can sample, survive, and learn to avoid. The shared appearance then protects the lethal mimic without requiring direct education by fatal encounters. Batesian mimicry involves a harmless mimic, Müllerian mimicry involves mutually defended species reinforcing
Ref: Evolutionary Analysis, Herron & Freeman, 5th Ed., Ch. 10
