Comments | wtf_nature: Bird Pretends to be Caterpillar

drhoz in wtf_nature

Bird Pretends to be Caterpillar

Dec 16, 2014 17:31

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moth, mimicry, invertebrate, insect

Comments 9

adafrog December 16 2014, 13:54:48 UTC

That is very cool.

drhoz December 17 2014, 08:32:45 UTC

yup!

ljbook_club February 8 2015, 16:00:31 UTC

What i always wonder is how does that part of evolution happen? The bird is not actively choosing to appear like a venom ridden caterpillar. Its all so strange.

kadenza December 16 2014, 19:36:32 UTC

Wow, that's really neat. Here's a video I found of a baby bird doing its caterpillar act (pretty convincing, imo).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkRmMQ-xBuo#t=24

drhoz December 22 2014, 12:04:46 UTC

thanks!

full_metal_ox December 17 2014, 00:04:14 UTC

I presume that the little critter's adult form is something like this?

drhoz December 17 2014, 08:33:06 UTC

*grin*

leandra_nyx December 20 2014, 16:30:28 UTC

It's so cute!

drhoz December 22 2014, 12:05:08 UTC

yup :) the caterpillar not so much, when you know how dangerous it is.