Scientists Stunned by Bird That Pretends To Be a Toxic Caterpillar

A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first spotted the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird biologists weren’t sure what they were looking at. The chick, just a day old and no bigger than a [...]

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