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Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Background Among potential hosts, the rejection of foreign eggs, which is a common and effective strategy to counter brood parasitism, depends on egg recognition.
Donglai Li +4 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Avian brood parasitism is reproductively costly for hosts and selects for cognitive features enabling anti‐parasitic resistance at multiple stages of the host's breeding cycle.
Andrew G. Fulmer, Mark E. Hauber
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Why cuckoos remove host eggs: Biting eggs facilitates faster parasitic egg‐laying
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Brood parasitism by cuckoos relies on manipulating hosts to raise their offspring and has evolved stunning adaptations to aid in their deception. The fact that cuckoos usually but not always, remove one or two host eggs while laying their eggs has been a
Longwu Wang +4 more
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Avian Research, 2019 Background Our knowledge of avian brood parasitism is primarily based on studies of a few selected species. Recently, researchers have targeted a wider range of host–parasite systems, which has allowed further evaluation of hypotheses derived from well ...
Odd Helge Tunheim +7 more
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A Note on Iconicity and Motivation of Expression [PDF]
, 2007 While iconic effects can be detected at all levels of linguistic analysis, according to the standard position they have little, if any, relevance for the system of language.
Pawelec, Andrzej
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Combining personal with social information facilitates host defences and explains why cuckoos should be secretive. [PDF]
, 2016 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
Davies, Nicholas B, Thorogood, Rose
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How strong are eggs of the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus? [PDF]
Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 2020 The common cuckoo Cuculus canorus is an obligate brood parasite that lays its eggs in the nests of small passerines. It has long been hypothesized that cuckoo eggs should be structurally stronger than host eggs or those of non-parasitic cuckoos to reduce chances of breakage during laying, to prevent accidental damage during incubation and/or to hinder ...
Picman, J., Honza, M. (Marcel)
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Continuous variation rather than specialization in the egg phenotypes of cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) parasitizing two sympatric reed warbler species. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The evolution of brood parasitism has long attracted considerable attention among behavioural ecologists, especially in the common cuckoo system. Common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) are obligatory brood parasites, laying eggs in nests of passerines and ...
Szymon M Drobniak +3 more
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Predicting spatial patterns of Cuculus canorus under climate change in Türkiye
Turkish Journal of ForestryClimate change is reshaping species distributions worldwide, with migratory birds representing one of the most vulnerable groups in this process. The Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), a species of high ecological importance, is widely distributed across ...
Emrah Ertuğrul +2 more
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Quantitative analysis of vocalisation types in male common cuckoos’ "gowk" call complex
Zoology, 2022 Acoustic communication of animals often contains two types of vocalizations: loud sounds for long-range and soft sounds for short-range signalling. Brood parasitic common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) are suitable study objects for research on acoustic signalling as they have a simple acoustic repertoire, of which the loud territorial advertisement calls ...
Moskát, Csaba, Hauber, M.E.
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