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Host species determines egg size in Oriental cuckoo [PDF]

, 2018
© 2018 The Zoological Society of London.The Oriental cuckoo Cuculus optatus is an obligate brood parasite associated with species of the genus Phylloscopus.
Bachurin, Balatsky, Balatsky, Balatsky, Balatsky, Brazil, Bán, Chunihin, Cramp, Cramp, Crawley, Davies, Dawkins, Egorov, Erritzøe, Fossøy, Fossøy, Gaston, Gibbs, Gill, Hargitai, Johnsgard, King, Kislenko, Kislenko, Korelov, Krist, Krüger, Kuzikov, Latter, Litvinenko, Logan, Makatsch, Marchetti, Marchetti, Meshcheryagina, Meshcheryagina, Mitiay, Moksnes, Moksnes, Murav'ev, Numerov, Numerov, Payne, Payne, Pukinsky, R Core Team, Ryabitsev, Schönwetter, Shcherbakov, Sokolov, Tuero, Vikan, Xia, Yang   +54 more
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A game-theoretic model of interspecific brood parasitism with sequential decisions [PDF]

, 2008
The interaction between hosts and parasites in bird populations has been studied extensively. This paper uses game-theoretic methods to model this interaction.
Banks, Barber, Brooke, Broom, Davies, Davies, Davies, Dearborn, Grim, Haas, Hoover, Hoover, Kilner, Kilner, Kilner, Krüger, Krüger, Langmore, Lawes, Lorenzana, Lotem, M. Broom, M.D. Harrison, Maruyama, Pagel, Payne, Payne, Planque, Robert, Rodríguez-Gironés, Schmidt, Servedio, Stokke, Takasu, Takasu, Takasu, Tewksbury, van Damme, Winfree, Yamauchi, Zink   +40 more
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A game demonstrating aspects of bumblebee natural history [PDF]

, 2004
The Bumblebee Game is an exciting outdoor game, which demonstrates aspects of bumblebee natural history including food chains, food webs and competition for food, predation by crab spiders, parasitism by Conopidae (Diptera) and brood parasitism by ...
Westgarth-Smith, AR
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Host response to cuckoo song is predicted by the future risk of brood parasitism [PDF]

, 2013
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work ...
Colombelli-Negrel, Diane, Evans, Christine, Griggio, M, Hoi, Herbert, Kleindorfer, Sonia Marie, Robertson, Jeremy   +5 more
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Variation in plasma oxidative status and testosterone level in relation to egg-eviction effort and age of brood-parasitic common cuckoo nestlings [PDF]

, 2012
To avoid competition for parental care, brood-parasitic Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) nestlings evict all of the host's eggs and nestlings within a few days after hatching.
CavalleRi, CgRaw, CkMan, Cli RD, CoHen, CoHen, CoRaglio, Costantini D., Costantini D., Csaba Moskát, David Costantini, Davies, Davies, Del Rio D., Dietz M., Din D., Dkins-Regan, DsHi P, Felt RD, Halliwell, Hanan, Hanan, Hantz, HaRt, Haube R, HelFenstein F., HollMén, Honza M., Jaime Muriel, Janaszewska, Ji, leCk C. M., Ma M., Mark E. Hauber, MaRtín D., MetCalFe, Miklós Bán, Molná R, MonagHan P., Moskát C., QuillFelDt P., Ra J. C., Ra J. C., Rai P. F., Ri M, Ri M, RigHt P. a., Rio R, Rita Hargitai, RkHea D, RootHuis, ézina F.   +51 more
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Ranging behavior of female and male Shiny Cowbirds and Screaming Cowbirds while searching for host nests [PDF]

, 2014
Pusimos a prueba la hipótesis que los tordos parásitos de cría buscan y localizan nidos de hospedadores dentro de un área relativamente constante, ya que esto facilitaría el monitoreo de nidos a través del tiempo y la sincronización del parasitismo con ...
Reboreda, Juan Carlos, Scardamaglia, Romina Clara   +1 more
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Parasitic cuckoo catfish exploit parental responses to stray offspring [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019
Interspecific brood parasitism occurs in several independent lineages of birds and social insects, putatively evolving from intraspecific brood parasitism. The cuckoo catfish, Synodontis multipunctatus , the only known obligatory non-avian brood parasite, exploits mouthbrooding cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika ...
M. Polačik, M. Reichard, C. Smith, R. Blažek   +3 more
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Cuckoo Search via Levy Flights [PDF]

, 2009
In this paper, we intend to formulate a new metaheuristic algorithm, called Cuckoo Search (CS), for solving optimization problems. This algorithm is based on the obligate brood parasitic behaviour of some cuckoo species in combination with the Levy ...
Deb, Suash, Yang, Xin-She
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Female Cuckoo Calls Deceive Their Hosts by Evoking Nest-Leaving Behavior: Variation under Different Levels of Parasitism

Animals, 2022
The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is an obligate brood parasite that has evolved a series of strategies to trick its hosts. The female cuckoo has been hypothesized to mimic the appearance and sounds of several raptors to deceive the hosts into ...
Jiaojiao Wang, Laikun Ma, Xiangyang Chen, Canchao Yang   +3 more
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A comparative study of the function of heterospecific vocal mimicry in European passerines [PDF]

, 2007
Although heterospecific vocal imitation is well documented in passerines, the evolutionary correlates of this phenomenon are poorly known. Here, we studied interspecific variation in vocal mimicry in a comparative study of 241 European songbirds.
Anders Pape Møller, Avilés, Badyaev, Baylis, Bell, BioStat, Blondel, Burfield, Chu, Cibois, Cohen, Coleman, Cramp, Cucco, Denitza Zaprianova Pavlova, Dobkin, Dowsett-Lemaire, Ferguson, Forstmeier, Freckleton, Friedenberg, Galeotti, Garamszegi, Garamszegi, Garamszegi, Garamszegi, Garamszegi, Garamszegi, Garamszegi, Gil, Glutz von Blotzheim, Goodale, Gray, Greenlaw, Griffith, Hamao, Hartshorne, Hausberger, Hindmarsh, Hindmarsh, Hindmarsh, Iwaniuk, Jesús Miguel Avilés, Kipper, Lefebvre, Lemaire, László Zsolt Garamszegi, Marcel Eens, Martins, McCarthy, Mlíkovsky, Moran, Mullarney, Møller, Møller, Møller, Møller, Nakagawa, Nowicki, Pagel, Panov, Paradis, Randler, Read, Robinson, Sheldon, Sibley, Soler, Spottiswoode, Stattersfield, Svensson, Witherby, Zollinger   +72 more
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