Cuckoo adaptations: trickery and tuning

I suggest that the cuckoo's parasitic adaptations are of two kinds: ‘trickery’, which is how adult cuckoos and cuckoo eggs and chicks evade host defences, and involves adaptations that have co‐evolved with host counter‐adaptations, and ‘tuning’, which is how, once accepted, cuckoo egg and chick...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of zoology (1987) 2011-05, Vol.284 (1), p.1-14
1. Verfasser:	Davies, N.B.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal behavior Animal communication Birds brood parasitism co-evolution communication cuckoo deception Defense mechanisms Parasites Zoology
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