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Nestling cuckoos, Cuculus canorus, exploit hosts with begging calls that mimic a brood

Nestling cuckoos, Cuculus canorus, eject host eggs or young from the nest and are then raised alone by the hosts. Using reed warblers, Acrocephalus scirpaceus, as hosts, we investigated how the single cuckoo chick can command the same provisioning rate as a whole brood of host young. Large size alon...

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Main Authors: Davies, N. B., Kilner, R. M., Noble, D. G.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 1998
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1689031/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1998.0346
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