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

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

A baby hummingbird hatches. But it has fluffy feathers on its back ... Chelina Batista, iNaturalist One example of this type ...

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

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 ...

A chance encounter in a Panama rainforest has uncovered a new defensive behavior in white-necked jacobin hummingbird chicks.

Hummingbird chicks pretend to be a caterpillar to avoid being eaten, reveals new research. The tiny birds, smaller than a ...

and his team described this unusual mimicry behavior for the first time in hummingbirds. "We know so little about what nesting birds do in the tropics," said Falk, the paper's first author and ...

More information: Jay J. Falk et al, Potential caterpillar mimicry in a tropical hummingbird, Ecology (2025). DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70060 ...