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Nestling discrimination without recognition: a possible defence mechanism for hosts towards cuckoo parasitism?

One of the great evolutionary puzzles is why hosts of parasitic birds discriminate finely against alien eggs, but almost never discriminate against parasitic chicks. A theoretical model has shown that an adaptive host response to alien eggs can be based on learning. However, learned nestling discrim...

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Main Authors: Grim, Tomás, Kleven, Oddmund, Mikulica, Oldrich
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: 2003
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1698041/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12952641
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2003.0017
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