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Combining personal with social information facilitates host defences and explains why cuckoos should be secretive

Individuals often vary defences in response to local predation or parasitism risk. But how should they assess threat levels when it pays their enemies to hide? For common cuckoo hosts, assessing parasitism risk is challenging: cuckoo eggs are mimetic and adult cuckoos are secretive and resemble hawk...

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Autori principali: Thorogood, Rose, Davies, Nicholas B.
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4726410/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26794435
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep19872
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