We are drawn to mimicry and disturbed by it too. As children, we play dress up and let's pretend, and we understand our fellow hominins through private reenactment. Our most elaborate masquerades ...

The pseudo-copulation strategy of the orchid enables it to spread its genes widely. The mimicry is near-perfect. For example, the Australian hammer orchid has taken advantage of a mating ritual of ...

Ravreby is the first author of "The many faces of mimicry depend on the social context," published Nov. 18 in the journal Emotion, with co-authors from Tel-Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University ...

By using Artificial Intelligence to study cats’ facial mimicry, researchers at the Israeli institution’s Tech4Animals Laboratory in the Department of Information Systems at the university were ...