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Instead, cowbird chicks learned who they were by hanging out with unrelated adult females. Brown-headed cowbirds are what scientists call brood parasites.

In response, brood parasites continuously refine their mimicry or develop counterstrategies such as stronger egg shells or more aggressive chick behavior. Some hosts have evolved to recognize not just ...

The University of California, Riverside, has revealed in a new study that bumblebee queens are less active than previously thought. After overwintering, bumblebee queens lay the first brood of eggs.

A second brood of ospreys have hatched at a wetland nature reserve. Cumbria Wildlife Trust said that for the first time it had two breeding pairs at Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve, near Witherslack ...