In her new book about cuckoos, Cynthia Chris details the extensive history of everyone's favorite feathery brood parasite.

Caption Cuckoo finch and host chicks. Brood parasitism is costly for hosts because a cuckoo finch chick begs for food very vigorously as soon as it hatches, outcompeting the host parents’ own ...

C. canorus is known to have passed its eggs on to more than 100 host species, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. When the cuckoo chick hatches, it ejects other eggs ...

For hosts of brood parasitic birds, the costs of parasitism range from diminished nestling growth rate, due to competition with larger and more competitive parasitic offspring (cowbirds ...

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 ...

Only about 1 percent of all bird species resort to this sneaky family planning method, called obligate brood parasitism ... to sneak into host nests unchallenged. The common cuckoo (Cuculus ...

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In parasitism, an individual organism, the parasite, consumes nutrients from another organism, its host, resulting in a decrease in fitness to the host. In extreme cases, parasites can cause ...

Whether on daytime or late night, talk show hosts have played a remarkably prominent role in American — and, in some cases, British — popular culture. They entertain and ask tough questions ...

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I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The logline for Cuckoo reads, “Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen (Schafer) leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort ...