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submitted 1 year ago by Lowburn@lemmy.world to c/pics@lemmy.world

Didn't even know such a thing existed. At first I thought it was a baby hummingbird until I got closer and saw the fur and antennae.

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[-] hutchmcnugget@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Is this an example or convergent evolution or mimicry? Or something else I'm not aware of?

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

Yes (convergent part), but I would say that it's more like the bird(s) one is converging to take the classic infect job

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