On this planet there are plenty of animals with impressive camouflage. Camouflage can be used both for defence and attack as it can help animals blend in with their environment to avoid predators but ...

Many harmless animals mimic dangerous ones to avoid being eaten, but often this fakery is inaccurate. To help explain why evolution sometimes favours imperfect mimicry, a team 3D printed a range of ...

Bird that mimic other birds are the cover artists of the bird world, borrowing sounds and tunes from other birds to use as their own. Some mimicry bird species—mockingbirds, thrashers and catbirds—may ...

Mimicry is a survival adaptation where one species evolves to resemble another, differing from camouflage which involves blending into the environment. Some species, such as the skunk cabbage, use ...

In the mountainous cacao farms of Colombia, a new species mimics another animal. Gamboa J, Gil-Santana HR, Gamboa-Tabares A, Martínez-Viuche E, Serna F (2024) ZooKeys When identifying animals, the ...

Playing a “do-as-I-do” game with "wookies": An orangutan and a human I'm always looking for interesting and novel research on nonhuman animal (animal) cognition to share with readers, and a recent ...