In the tropical forests, the spitfire bird has adapted the ability to spray corrosive chemicals to fend off predators like the falconfly. They get their chemical weapons from a tree called the spitfire tree. It is descended from a modern petrels and still have the petrel's nose tubes. Mating is a short and fast process. The male and female mate and then care for their young until they fly the coop. Among their predators are the spitfire beetles, which mimic spitfire flowers to ambush their prey witch only visits flowers to get more chemicals. A species similar in appearance, the false spitfire bird, has also evolved but that species is harmless, using its colors to scare predators.