How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to survive
When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama's dense rainforest, the bird ...
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Hummingbird chick mimics a toxic caterpillar to evade predators
Scientists discovered a hummingbird chick that twitches like a caterpillar. This behavior scares off predators.
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The Art of Deception
Mimicry in nature likewise can charm or repel ... and round and inorganic as the polished stones around them, or the caterpillar that, when frightened, will hold up its front end to flash a ...
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Small bird, big trick: How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to survive
When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird biologists didn’t know what they were ...
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Hummingbird Chick Mimics Caterpillar for Survival
When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama's dense rainforest, the bird biologists didn't know what ...
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How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to survive
"And invariably, they said, 'That looks like a caterpillar.' It was very exciting ... signaling of a harmful species as Batesian mimicry. For example, some non-venomous milk snakes have developed ...