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In a new kind of plant trickery, this yam fools birds with fake berries

Ecologists find a seedless plant that snookers birds into spreading it far and wide

Two strands of black berries hang side by side. Only one set is real. The other is plant parts that just mimic berries.

Can you tell which are fake berries and which are real? The doppelgängers (on the left) even fooled researchers initially because they look so much like real berries (right).

Gao Chen

By Elizabeth Pennisi

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