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100 1 $aDavies, N. B.$q(Nicholas B.),$d1952-$eauthor.
245 10 $aCuckoo :$bcheating by nature /$cNick Davies ; with field drawings by James McCallum.
250 $aFirst U.S. edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bBloomsbury,$c2015.
300 $axx, 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color), map ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"First published in Great Britain 2015"--Title-page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index.
505 0 $aA cuckoo in the nest -- How the cuckoo lays her egg -- Wicked fen -- Harbinger of spring -- Playing cuckoo -- An arms race with eggs -- Signatures and forgeries -- A cheat in various guises -- A strange and odious instinct -- Begging tricks -- Choosing hosts -- An entangled bank -- Cuckoos in decline -- A changing world.
520 $aHow does the cuckoo get away with laying its eggs in the nests of other birds and tricking them into raising young cuckoos rather than their own offspring? Early observers who noticed a little warbler feeding a monstrously large cuckoo chick concluded the cuckoo's lack of parental care was the result of faulty design by the Creator, and that the hosts chose to help the poor cuckoo. These quaint views of bad design and benevolence were banished after Charles Darwin proposed that the cuckoo tricks the hosts in an evolutionary battle, where hosts evolve better defenses against cuckoos and cuckoos, in turn, evolve better trickery to outwit the hosts. For the last three decades, Davies has employed observation and field experiments to unravel the details of this evolutionary "arms race" between cuckoos and their hosts. Like a detective, Davies and his colleagues studied adult cuckoo behavior, cuckoo egg markings, and cuckoo chick begging calls to discover exactly how cuckoos trick their hosts.
650 0 $aCuckoos$xBehavior.
650 0 $aBrood parasitism.
650 0 $aCuckoos$xEvolution.
650 0 $aCuckoos$xLife cycles.
650 0 $aHost-parasite relationships.
650 0 $aParasitic birds$xBehavior.
650 0 $aBirds$xBehavior.
650 0 $aBehavior evolution.
650 0 $aEvolution (Biology)
700 1 $aMcCallum, James,$eillustrator.
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