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 ...

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 ...

These costs exert reciprocal natural selection on parasites and hosts, such that in many cases host-parasite interactions result in escalating coevolution between intimately tied and ...

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

The paper, by Daniela Canestrari at the University of Oviedo in Oviedo, Spain, and colleagues was titled, "From Parasitism to Mutualism: Unexpected Interactions Between a Cuckoo and Its Host." ...

The female cuckoo-finch (Anomalospiza imberbis), for example, has evolved to look like a harmless, non-parasitic bird that lives in the same area, allowing it to sneak into host nests unchallenged.

Quarter of a million host-parasite records, detailing helminth parasites their associated host species and locality, extracted from 28,000 references. In 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today ...

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 ...

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 ...

black-and-yellow bee is unusual in that it is a “cuckoo” or social parasite that takes over the nests of other bumblebees by subduing the resident queen and making the worker bees feed and care for ...

It doesn’t replace the organs entirely but instead hijacks them, forcing the crab to care for the parasite’s larvae as if they were its own. The barnacle manipulates the host’s behavior and ...