The species co-evolved? I am assuming the early "I am a termite" mimicry wasn't very good, but neither was the termites 'not a termite' detection logic and so each incremental step of the way over 100,000+ years of evolution, they co-evolved to believe this mimicry, at a high level.
Neither party can entirely "win" in this model. At best, they get some marginal benefit in a predator/prey/host model which alters the cyclical swings of which species is higher or lower in the equipoised outcome. Over the next 1000 years, it swings the other way.
Neither party can entirely "win" in this model. At best, they get some marginal benefit in a predator/prey/host model which alters the cyclical swings of which species is higher or lower in the equipoised outcome. Over the next 1000 years, it swings the other way.