The word "mimic”Comes from mimicry and is the ability of certain living beings to make their exterior similar to the environment in order to survive. Its use goes beyond this meaning, since it is also used as a metaphor to indicate actions of people or things..
The Royal Spanish Academy has two definitions for "mimic" (which it incorporated in 1984). On the one hand, he points it out as a synonym for imitating, defining it as doing something with someone else's style. On the other hand, he defined it as a pronominal verb that refers to the adoption of the appearance of living beings or objects in the environment.
From the biological point of view, some confuse and indicate that "mimic" and "camouflage" are the same, but they are not. On the one hand, mimicry is the similar appearance of a living being to others in its environment, while in crypsis (as it is formally known), the living being resembles the environment where it lives. In any case, they agree on something: their purpose is to ensure their survival..
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In nature, there are different types of mimicry:
It is the ability of some animals to copy the defense signals of other more dangerous, in order to send a message of great danger to the predator.
One part of the animal's body blends with another that is more vulnerable in order to direct the attack of predators towards that area, without which the animal can survive anyway..
The English naturalist Henry Walter Bates observed that some totally harmless species take on the appearance of others dangerous to the predator, or even disgusting taste for it. All in order to avoid being predated.
Another Bates colleague, Fritz Müller, noted that some animals "copy" the bad taste of others to defend themselves. In reality, they resemble those animals that are unpleasant for predators, since if they ever ate it and did not like it, it would hardly be possible to predate one of them again..
Some animals copy less offensive ones, in order to go unnoticed and then hit their prey.
This technique is based on deterring the predator through the auditory or olfactory sense. For example, there are owls that brood their young on the ground and to evade the passage of land predators, they emit a sound similar to that of the rattlesnake to howl them.
The word "mimic" is also used as a figure to imply that one person resembles another, either in behavior over time or in physical appearance. Do not fall into the error of believing that "mimic" in this case, is the same as "copy".
Some words that mean something similar to the meaning of "mimic" are "seem", "assimilate", "similar", "similar", "disguised", "camouflaged", or "copied".
Meanwhile, the words contrary to "mimic" are "opposite", "notorious", "extravagant", "different", "exposed" or "striking".
-"Andrés has been dating Juana for a year and is already blending in with her habits".
-"When I find myself in a new social group I quickly blend in with each other".
-"The chameleon blends in with the environment to go unnoticed by its prey".
-"Some species blend in with the environment in order to save themselves from their predator".
-"If the lamb could, it would blend in with the field so that it is not caught".
-"Don't blend in with your partner".
-"The chosen clothing was mimetized with the decoration".
-"Maybe you didn't realize it, but you were mimicking their unpleasant behaviors".
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