Would anyone care to explain why a predator with zero experience with a coral snake would honor its threat?
I was wondering the same thing.
Do the predators have prey meetings on occasion, where they warn each other about various coloration patterns to avoid?
I can see harmful stinging insects and the like being mimicked but a deadly snake? It seems to me if a hapless predator tries to eat deadly prey, the predator will die, and this won’t be able to learn from his mistake. And thus won’t be around to avoid any mimics.