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Caterpillar-Like Hummingbird Chick Could Be Rare Example Of Batesian Mimicry In Birds
The animal world is always full of surprises. Even a long-studied species can hold a few secrets hidden between their fur or ...
Study Finds6d
These Baby Hummingbirds Disguise Themselves as Toxic Caterpillars to Perplex Predators
Uncover the mysteries of hummingbirds. How does the white-necked jacobin trick predators through mimicry? Find out now.
Smithsonian Magazine11d
Possible Caterpillar-Like Baby Hummingbird Discovered in Panama
A baby hummingbird hatches. But it has fluffy feathers on its back ... Chelina Batista, iNaturalist One example of this type ...
Baby hummingbird appears to mimic caterpillar to avoid death
A baby hummingbird might have a special way of warding off predators, which threaten tropical hummingbird species in infancy.
Yahoo8d
In a first, hummingbird baby found using caterpillar disguise to scare predators
In a cute first, a curious observation led to a sweet and thrilling discovery of a caterpillar-like hummingbird with ... Described as a natural “mimicry,” the White-necked Jacobin, along ...
Good News Network4d
Hummingbird Chicks Observed for the First Time Pretending to be Caterpillars to Avoid Being Eaten
Tiny hummingbird chicks were observed mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to survive in the Panama rainforest–a first for science.
The Newly Discovered Defense Mechanism of the Jacobin Hummingbird
A chance encounter in a Panama rainforest has uncovered a new defensive behavior in white-necked jacobin hummingbird chicks.
Victoria Advocate9d
How hummingbird chicks protect themselves from being eaten
Hummingbird chicks pretend to be a caterpillar to avoid being eaten, reveals new research. The tiny birds, smaller than a ...
Phys.org17d
How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to survive
More information: Jay J. Falk et al, Potential caterpillar mimicry in a tropical hummingbird, Ecology (2025). DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70060 ...