Cuckoo
tricks to beat the neighbourhood watch
New
research explains why female cuckoos have evolved different guises.
To minimise
the chance of being recognised and thus attacked by the birds they are trying
to parasitize, female cuckoos have evolved different guises. The new research, funded by the Natural
Environment Research Council, was published today, 03 August, in the journal
Science.
The common
cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) lays its eggs in the nests of other birds.
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