The white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) is a jewel-toned hummingbird found in the neotropical lowlands of South ...

Hummingbirds have high metabolisms, but what's even more surprising is the metabolism rate of their hatchlings.

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

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

How To Watch Fox Weather Scott Taylor, Falk's advisor, was with the group when they found the baby hummingbird, and he noticed something he'd never seen before – long, fluffy feathers down its back ...

Researchers with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute discovered the baby White-necked Jacobin hummingbird had unique features, making it look like a dangerous caterpillar. The Atlantic ...

Scott Taylor, adviser to the main scientist of this research, noticed that this baby hummingbird had long ... This species is not the first one to show this kind of mimicry. Cinereous Mourner, a bird ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A baby hummingbird might have a special way of warding off predators, which threaten tropical hummingbird species in infancy ...

That changed when Michael Castaño-Díaz and Sebastián Gallan Giraldo, a Ph.D student and research assistant, spotted a White-necked Jacobin nest with a caring female and one egg in a national park in ...

One example of this type of mimicry is the Cinereous Mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra), a bird native to South America known for their caterpillar-like baby chicks. With this in mind, they searched online ...