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

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

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

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

For the first time, scientists described a hummingbird chick potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting ...

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

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 ...

the team from this study spotted a White-necked jacobin nest with one female and one egg inside within Panama’s Soberanía National Park. Since this was the first of these hummingbirds that some ...

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

Over the following month, the team closely monitored the nest and witnessed a chick hatch from the egg. Unlike most hummingbirds that are born naked, the jacobin chick was covered in long brown ...