For the first time, scientists described a hummingbird chick potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting eaten.
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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, smaller than a pinky finger, had brown fuzz all over its body. When Falk and Taylor walked closer to the nest, the chick began twitching and shaking its head — a behavior they had never seen in birds before.
