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Great spotted cuckoo fledglings often receive feedings from other magpie adults than their foster pa...

Great spotted cuckoo fledglings often receive feedings from other magpie adults than their foster pa...

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Great spotted cuckoo fledglings often receive feedings from other magpie adults than their foster parents: which magpies accept to feed foreign cuckoo fledglings?

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Great spotted cuckoo fledglings often receive feedings from other magpie adults than their foster parents: which magpies accept to feed foreign cuckoo fledglings?

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United States: Public Library of Science

Journal title

PloS one, 2014-10, Vol.9 (10), p.e107412-e107412

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English

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United States: Public Library of Science

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Contents

Natural selection penalizes individuals that provide costly parental care to non-relatives. However, feedings to brood-parasitic fledglings by individuals other than their foster parents, although anecdotic, have been commonly observed, also in the great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius)--magpie (Pica pica) system, but this behaviour has never b...

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Great spotted cuckoo fledglings often receive feedings from other magpie adults than their foster parents: which magpies accept to feed foreign cuckoo fledglings?

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TN_cdi_plos_journals_1566821982

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_1566821982

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ISSN

1932-6203

E-ISSN

1932-6203

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0107412

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