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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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Autors principals: Antonov, Anton, Stokke, Bård G., Moksnes, Arne, Røskaft, Eivin
Format: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: The Royal Society 2008
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Accés en línia: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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