A review of the cues used for rejecting foreign eggs from the nest by the Eurasian blackbird (Turdus merula)
Abstract Avian brood parasitism is reproductively costly for hosts and selects for cognitive features enabling anti‐parasitic resistance at multiple stages of the host's breeding cycle. The true thrushes (genus Turdus) represent a nearly worldwide clade of potential hosts of brood parasitism by...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2022-05-01
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| Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8886 |