Escape artists: Birds learn to avoid flashy, hard-to-catch butterflies and their lookalikes – Research News https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/birds-avoid-hard-to-catch-butterflies-and-lookalikes/
The showy colors of some butterflies could advertise their speed and nimbleness, much like a coat of bright yellow paint on a sports car. A new study shows birds can learn to recognize these visual cues, avoiding not only butterflies they’ve failed to nab in the past but similar-looking species as w
tits, birds that would never have encountered tropical Adelpha butterflies, and train