A baby hummingbird hatches. But it has fluffy feathers on its back, looking just like a dangerous caterpillar. Could this be ...
When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama's dense rainforest, the bird ...
Scientists discovered a hummingbird chick that twitches like a caterpillar. This behavior scares off predators.
Hummingbird chicks pretend to be a caterpillar to avoid being eaten, reveals new research. The tiny birds, smaller than a ...
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Scientists mimic cat eyes to create artificial eye that sees better in the dark, detects camouflaged objectsIn their study published in the journal Science Advances, the group copied two features of cat eyes that give them ... based on circular apertures that mimic the human eye, an approach that ...
When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird ...
Some science discoveries take years. Other just take one curious observation, and as Jay Falk, a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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