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Bizarre Baby Bird Mimics a Toxic Caterpillar To Escape Predation

Cinereous mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra) chicks are taught from a very young age, like, birth, one very important saying. It’s so important that their lives actually depend on them mastering it. The saying: Be the bug.

You see, a recent study published in the journal American Naturalist, describes how the cinereous mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra) is covered with bright orange and speckled down-feathers when it is first born… and how the bird uses those feathers to imitate a poisonous caterpillar, reducing its chances of predation. 

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