While Traveling in Texas, You Stumble Across a Snake with Red

Multiple Choice

While traveling in Texas, you stumble across a snake with red, yellow, and black bands. You somehow remember that this could be a poisonous coral snake or a harmless milk snake, but you forget how to differentiate them because they both have similar colors and banding patterns. You wisely decide not to pick up the snake. What defense of the snake was successful in preventing you from grabbing the snake?

A) constitutive defense
B) Müllerian mimicry
C) Batesian mimicry
D) inducible defenses