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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.
University of Colorado Boulder11 天
Small bird, big trick: How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to survive
When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird ...
Talker on MSN3 天
How hummingbird chicks protect themselves from being eaten
The South Americans hummingbird chicks try to disguise themselves as caterpillar to throw off predators. The post How ...
Phys.org11 天
How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to survive
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 they were looking at. The day-old bird ...
Earth.com9 天
Hummingbird chick mimics a toxic caterpillar to evade predators
Scientists discovered a hummingbird chick that twitches like a caterpillar. This behavior scares off predators.
PBS6 年
Hummingbird Species in the Transitional Zones:
The hummingbird study that Tom Smith and Chris ... ecosystems -- one an open forest and the adjacent one a closed rainforest. The open forest lizards are smaller, have shorter limbs and bigger ...
Mirage News10 天
Hummingbird Chick Mimics Caterpillar for Survival
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 ...