Clever birds figure out how to trick others into raising their kids A common Cuckoo chick in Reed Wablers nest waits to be fed with its mouth wide open, in this undated file photo. Getty Images — ...
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. How do new species arise? And why are there so many of them? One possible ...
What’s that in my nest? How the evolutionary arms race between cuckoos and hosts creates new species
Naomi Langmore receives funding from the Australian National University and the Australian Research Council. Alicia Grealy received funding from the Centre for Biodiversity Analysis (CBA). Clare ...
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Meet the Common Cuckoo Bird: Master Nest Thief
Most birds spend hours, days, or even weeks painstakingly building their nests. Some birds make nests out of mud, some build nests in trees, and some birds nest on the ground and simply scrape out a ...
A male superb fairy-wren brings food to a Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo fledgling. Credit: Mark Lethlean The theory of coevolution says that when closely interacting species drive evolutionary changes in ...
A lot of us will change our wardrobe to fit into a crowd, and the brood parasite known as the cuckoo has used evolution to do the same thing. Because cuckoos lay their eggs in the nest of a host bird, ...
The theory of coevolution says that when closely interacting species drive evolutionary changes in each other this can lead to speciation - the evolution of new species. But until now, real-world ...
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