Batten down the thatches: front-line defences in an apparently defenceless cuckoo host
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- 作者：Iliana Medina ; iliana.medina@anu.edu.au" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Naomi E. Langmore
- 关键词：breeding phenology ; brood parasitism ; cuckoos ; front-line defences ; mobbing
- 刊名：Animal Behaviour
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：February 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：112
- 期：Complete
- 页码：195-201
- 全文大小：365 K
文摘
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Some hosts of brood parasites do not reject parasitic eggs or chicks.
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Absence of main defence types may trigger the evolution of less common defences.
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Our study species instead nest-guards in the presence of brood parasites.
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They also breed earlier than sympatric species, possibly to avoid parasitism.
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Apparently defenceless hosts are key to understanding alternative defence types.