Some birds are so smart they can not only learn to speak like a human- they can also teach other birds how to speak.And when these chatty birds escape from captivity they take their ability to imitate human language with...

In the rainforests of Chile and Argentina lives a...  ...toxic to the caterpillar. This is called Batesian mimicry , when a harmless species tries to look like a ver...  ...to look like a very bad meal.Whatever the reason, mimicry seems to work. Gianoli and his co-author, Fernand...  ...s how the “stealth...

Take a closer look at this cute ladybug and you'd be surprised to find that it's actually a spider. Meet the Ladybird Mimic Spider (Ladybug Mimic Spider for us Yanks), as wonderfully s...

In evolutionary biology, mimicry is what happens when an organism evolve...  ...al snake. Obviously, the advantage of good mimicry is obvious - but why do so many animals...  ...ofitable meal and so the selection on mimicry

Wild Amazonian cats mimic the vocalizations of small animals in order to lure them for dinner. However they don't tell the tiny beasts that they are going to be the main course. Researchers first recorded the incident...

(YouTube link) You might recall Sir David Attenborough introducing us to the lyrebird, a master of mimcry (and later the wonderful remix). Chook the lyrebird lives at the Adelaide Zoo. After a period of construction a...

"...so convincing that male wasps will mate with it to the point of ejaculation." After reading that in Harper's Magazine ("Findings" section, Sept '08), I Googled the relevant terms and found that...

The Indonesian mimic octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus...  ...topus, Thaumoctopus mimicus, takes camouflage and mimicry into a new level:This octopus is able to copy the...