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Evidence for egg discrimination preceding failed rejection attempts in a small cuckoo host
Given the high costs of avian obligate brood parasitism, host individuals are selected to reject parasitic eggs they recognize as foreign. We show that rejection may not necessarily follow egg discrimination when selective removal of the parasitic egg is difficult. We studied egg rejection behaviour...
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| Natura: | Artigo |
| Lingua: | Inglês |
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The Royal Society
2008
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| Accesso online: | https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2665817/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19126530 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2008.0645 |
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