Driving parents cuckoo

Douglas W. Mock ()
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Douglas W. Mock: University of Oklahoma

Nature, 1999, vol. 397, issue 6721, 647-648

Abstract: Do nestling birds signal their food needs honestly to their parents? A study of begging reed warblers shows that they do, but that parental sensitivites to vocal and visual cues can be exploited by an invading cuckoo chick.

Date: 1999
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