Question
Explain brood parasitism with the help of an example.
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Answer
- Brood parasitism refers to the phenomenon in which a (parasitic) bird species lays its eggs in the nest of another (host) bird species and lets the host incubate them.
- The eggs of the parasitic bird must have evolved resemblance to the eggs of the host in size and colour to reduce the chances of the host bird detecting the foreign eggs and ejecting them from the nest, e.g. the cuckoo lays its eggs in the nest of a crow.
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