A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

The animal world is always full of surprises. Even a long-studied species can hold a few secrets hidden between their fur or ...

The South Americans hummingbird chicks try to disguise themselves as caterpillar to throw off predators. The post How ...

Tiny hummingbird chicks were observed mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to survive in the Panama rainforest–a first for science.

A baby hummingbird might have a special way of warding off predators, which threaten tropical hummingbird species in infancy.

When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird ...

A baby hummingbird hatches. But it has fluffy feathers on its back, looking just like a dangerous caterpillar. Could this be ...

Uncover the mysteries of hummingbirds. How does the white-necked jacobin trick predators through mimicry? Find out now.

After visiting the nest regularly for about 18-20 days, the egg finally hatched, but it had a remarkable feature that no other hummingbird species had ever exhibited. Down its back, the White ...

But, last March, researchers discovered a female jacobin hummingbird incubating an egg in its nest, not far from a forest trail. The nest, smaller than Dr. Falk’s palm, was made of plant parts ...