General Baby bird mimics poisonous caterpillar

[Soup]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBva-QziCyo


This baby bird instinctively mimics a poisonous caterpillar when it senses a predator nearby

 

[kvr28]

evolution is crazy

 

[NotBanjaxo]

evolution is crazy

There's so many very specific traits that various creatures have evolved and I wonder how the fuck it happened?

The simpler things are easy to see. Back when the majority of houses in England were heated with coal, many buildings were stained dark by pollution. There is a species of moth that lives in cities and suns itself on buildings, specimens were collected and preserved back in those days. After the Clean Air Act was introduced, as well as subsequent laws to reduce pollution, the buildings gradually became lighter in colour. The moths that have been collected since then have gradually become lighter too.

It's easy to understand how that happened; as the buildings became lighter, so the darker moths stood out to predators, so the lighter ones survived and passed on their genes. Therefore the species as a whole became lighter in colour.

Things like that baby bird that imitates a very specific poisonous caterpillar though, dafuq?

 

[NiteProwleR]

I like birds.

 

[kvr28]

I like birds.

go on

 

[MountainMedic]

evolution is crazy

The freaks won, lol

 

[MountainMedic]

There's so many very specific traits that various creatures have evolved and I wonder how the fuck it happened?

The simpler things are easy to see. Back when the majority of houses in England were heated with coal, many buildings were stained dark by pollution. There is a species of moth that lives in cities and suns itself on buildings, specimens were collected and preserved back in those days. After the Clean Air Act was introduced, as well as subsequent laws to reduce pollution, the buildings gradually became lighter in colour. The moths that have been collected since then have gradually become lighter too.

It's easy to understand how that happened; as the buildings became lighter, so the darker moths stood out to predators, so the lighter ones survived and passed on their genes. Therefore the species as a whole became lighter in colour.

Things like that baby bird that imitates a very specific poisonous caterpillar though, dafuq?

Its like Red being the universal color of something bad you shouldn't fuck with. Or the fact that you instinctively recognize the smell of death w/o ever encountering it before.

Hardwired into us..

 

[kvr28]

Or the fact that you instinctively recognize the smell of death w/o ever encountering it before.

that's a good one