Why do they do that!?

lookatthisbabybird:

gallusrostromegalus:

I’m going to assume this is about the woodcock, which does… This:

Science has a couple guesses which include:

• It’s a decent way to impersonate foliage blowing around in the wind for camoflage
• So other woodcocks can find them
• Carnivores look at that and go “That can’t possibly be food”
• Part of thier brains is literally upside-down, who the fuck KNOWS what’s going on in there.

My personal theory is that all woodcocks have a song stuck in thier heads at all times and The Just Gotta Dance.

It makes them even more lovable.

Chameleons and walking sticks do kind of a front-to-back version of that same walk, and they do it to pretend they’re foliage. 

I’d imagine it’s probably some combination of all of the above, really.