Thursday, March 12, 2015

This Bird Got A Nice Defense Mechanism

The Amazonian Cinereous Mourner newborns are easy targets for other, bigger birds, so they developed an interesting survival strategy. They impersonate a caterpillar known to be extremely poisonous. That's a pretty ingenious ploy for a bird that doesn't even know how to fly yet.



















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