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“I didn’t get any real results,” he said. “But I went ahead and showed that I had
tried the experiment. This time I won.” The next year his science fair project
was testing the theory that viceroy butterflies copy monarchs. The theory was
that viceroys look like monarchs because monarchs don’t taste good to birds.
Viceroys, on the other hand, do taste good to birds. So, the more they look
like monarchs, the less likely they are to become a bird’s dinner. Ebright’s
project was to see whether, in fact, birds would eat monarchs. He found that a
starling would not eat ordinary bird food. It would eat all the monarchs it could
get.