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A bit of delightful biology: my coauthor Jay Falk hypothesizes that the chicks of one species of hummingbird protect themselves by mimicking toxic caterpillars.
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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 biologists didn’t know what they were
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March 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A bit of delightful biology: my coauthor Jay Falk hypothesizes that the chicks of one species of hummingbird protect themselves by mimicking toxic caterpillars.
www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...