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

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

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

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How To Watch Fox Weather Scott Taylor, Falk's advisor, was with the group when they found the baby hummingbird, and he noticed something he'd never seen before – long, fluffy feathers down its back ...

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Scientists discovered a hummingbird chick that twitches like a caterpillar. This behavior scares off predators.