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A novel method of rejection of brood parasitic eggs reduces parasitism intensity in a cowbird host
The hosts of brood parasitic birds are under strong selection pressure to recognize and remove foreign eggs from their nests, but parasite eggs may be too large to be grasped whole and too strong to be readily pierced by the host's bill. Such operating constraints on egg removal are proposed to...
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The Royal Society
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3645041/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23485877 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0076 |
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