Living in the wild is still an adventure.
If you are a weak little bird, you have to be exhausted so that every counter cross does not eat you.
Here, for example, is the sunbittern.
The poor thing couldn’t think of anything better than to grow an extra pair of eyes.
Yes, where!
On the wings!
The feathered bird barely reaches half a meter in height and exceeds 200 grams of weight.
Even a medium-sized cat can dine with her!
To prevent this from happening, the bird by default flaunts in a black-and—brown camouflage – a wonderful camouflage for the rainforests of South America.
But even such a disguise is not absolute.
If a predator recognizes something edible in a gray-brown feathered carcass, the bird uses its trump card — spreads its wings.
However, instead of flying far away, the sunbittern… Just showing them?
At first glance, the tactics are very dubious, but the most amazing thing is that it works!
The predator, admiring the heron’s flapping wings, runs away from all paws.
How does it work?
It’s all about the pattern of the wings.
Red spots with a black border gape against the background of camouflage color.
Not having understood properly, it is not a sin to take them for an extra pair of eyes.
So, thanks to the power of illusions, a small bird turns into a dangerous monster with orange eyes.
Fleeing in a panic, the beast does not even realize that he has been fooled.
His instincts sounded the retreat, because the owner of such eyes must be huge, you need to retreat in a hurry.
Well, the sunbittern calmly folds its wings with an exquisite pattern and goes to do ordinary heron business.
