Does It Pay To Cheat?
For some birds, trying to cheat your neighbors into raising your babies is just as much work - and is no more successful - than doing it yourself.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Life history strategy: How organisms allocate energy usage to maximize offspring.
- Parental Investment: Any non-genetic contributions by parents to help their offspring survive.
- Brood Parasites: Organisms that rely on others to raise their young.
- Mafia Behavior: The practice of repeatedly visiting victims to make sure they are complying.
- Fecundity: The number of offspring produced by an individual over time.
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