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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 ...

2010). These and other cuckoo hosts appear to have evolved a simple rule of thumb to direct their behavior: "eject the egg unlike your own". But how does a bird know what its own eggs look like?

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. For the care and feeding of its offspring, the common cuckoo outsources. When she’s ready to lay an egg, a female ...

After emerging from the egg, the baby froghopper produces and stays inside its bubble of cuckoo spit for a couple of weeks. Once it has grown to full size, its back splits open and it emerges from ...

“Just cuck, not cuckoo” said Michael Cox, a retired watchmaker, volunteer and benefactor at the Western Bay Museum down busy ...

The cuckoo bee then lays her own eggs and gains control of the host colony’s worker bees, who continue collecting pollen and nectar to feed the cuckoo bee’s offspring. The parasitic cuckoo bumblebees ...

Brood parasitic birds lay their eggs in the nests of others, sparing themselves the expense of rearing their own young. The resulting coevolutionary arms race includes sophisticated defenses by ...

The cuckoo bee then lays her own eggs and controls the workers to continue collecting pollen and nectar to provision her offspring, often via aggressive behavior and chemical cues. Suckley's cuckoo ...

The Black Cuckoo is found throughout the eastern part of South Africa and the coastal areas of the Western Cape. It is a migrant species arriving in our area to breed from September-October. Most will ...