This Bird Got A Nice Defense Mechanism

11 Mar, 2015 | category - Animals | 3 photos | 3977 visits

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.