A chance encounter in a Panama rainforest has uncovered a new defensive behavior in white-necked jacobin hummingbird chicks.

Tiny hummingbird chicks were observed mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to survive in the Panama rainforest–a first for science.

When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird ...

Scientists discovered a hummingbird chick that twitches like a caterpillar. This behavior scares off predators.

What does a flower look like to a hummingbird? New research says it’s probably nothing like what humans perceive because ...