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Egg laying behavior of the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus): data based on field video-recordings

open access: yes, 2020
The egg laying behavior of brood parasites is at the heart of studies on their co-evolution with hosts. Updating and reporting more egg laying behavior can improve our perception and insight on the brood parasitism process. During a 7 years' study period,
Wang, Longwu
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Data from: Errors in egg laying by female Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus in nests of its common host

open access: yes, 2019
Variables entering the analyses of Cuckoo laying errors and fate of Cuckoo eggs: study year, no. of nest within each year, Cuckoo egg laying date (laydate), no. of the Cuckoo egg laid within the host nest (egg no.), laying order of the Cuckoo egg (order;
Milica Požgayová (7826039)   +3 more
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Three sympatric host nestlings eavesdrop on cuckoo nestling distress calls

open access: yesEcology and Evolution
In predator–prey interactions, the prey faces extreme challenges from predation, which drives the evolution of defense or anti‐predator mechanisms. Compared with adult birds, nestlings are more vulnerable but not helpless.
Jiaojiao Wang   +5 more
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Brood parasitism and host-parasite relationships: Cuckoos adapt to reduce the time of hatching ahead of host nestlings by increasing egg thickness

open access: yesInternational Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
The phenomenon of cuckoos’ brood parasitism is well known and can be investigated using applied mathematical techniques. Among adaptive features of this phenomenon are certain egg parameters that ensure their shortened incubation period (I) and thus the ...
Valeriy G. Narushin   +3 more
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Lively Cuckoo Bee (suggested common name) Nomada fervida Smith (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apidae)

open access: yes, 2017
This EDIS publication is an alternate version of a page published first on the Featured Creatures website. The Featured Creatures collection provides in-depth profiles of insects, nematodes, arachnids and other organisms relevant to Florida.
Cameron Jack   +2 more
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DNA Barcoding of German Cuckoo Wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) Suggests Cryptic Species in Several Widely Distributed Species

open access: yesInsects
Germany is home to a rich cuckoo wasp fauna (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) with about 108 species. However, several nomenclatural changes, the lack of identification keys, and the discovery of cryptic species difficult to identify based on external ...
Christian Schmid-Egger   +3 more
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A new race of the Common Hawk Cuckoo from Ceylon

open access: yes, 1949
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
openaire   +2 more sources

On leadership, continuity, and the common good [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The public interest. The public good. The common good. All these terms describe ways of thinking about our collective selves and our shared interests that transcend our memberships of such groups as families, teams, and workplaces that typically inform ...
Samuel Wilson
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An Enhanced Cuckoo Search for Optimization of Bloom Filter in Spam Filtering [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Bloom Filter BF is a simple but powerful data structure that can check membership to a static set The tradeoff to use Bloom filter is a certain configurable risk of false positives The odds of a false positive can be made very low if the hash bitmap ...
Premalatha   +2 more
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