A white-necked jacobin hummingbird chick surprises scientists, scaring away wasps by mimicking a poisonous caterpillar.

In a cute first, a curious observation led to a sweet and thrilling discovery of a caterpillar-like hummingbird with hairs that can even hurt humans if touched! Jay Falk, a U.S. National Science ...

For the first time, scientists described a hummingbird chick potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting eaten. When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin ...

Hummingbird chicks pretend to be a caterpillar to avoid being eaten, reveals new research. The tiny birds, smaller than a pinky finger, act like poisonous caterpillars to survive, American ecologists ...

The white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) is a jewel-toned hummingbird found in the neotropical lowlands of South America and the Caribbean. It shimmers blue and green in the sunlight as it flits ...

A chance encounter in a Panama rainforest has uncovered a new defensive behavior in white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chicks. In March 2024, Michael Castaño of the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

One of the tiniest birds plays a surprisingly large role in conservation advancement. Hummingbirds are beloved by many. Because the public is so fond of these gorgeous little birds, they help draw ...

The internet is in awe after a hummingbird can be seen feeding its babies in a tiny nest in a video going viral on social media. "Tiny Hummingbird chicks," @Buitengebiden, the account that uploaded ...

These hummingbird chicks are ready to join the adults at the local feeders, where a predator lurks nearby: a roadrunner. Like the cartoon, the real roadrunner is clever — and also a hunter. - In just ...

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 ...