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“If a female comes to the nest and finds an egg there before she has started laying—she sees that as a parasitic egg, so she gets rid of it,” says Riehl. Greater anis don’t like to have eggs in their nest before they’ve laid. It’s like if you’re expecting a baby, and you come home and find a baby in the crib—well, it’s probably not yours. It’s just as David Davis said, ‘Anis are like parasites that have become host-specific on themselves.’” The anis’ extraordinary group display behavior—unique in the bird world—arose only after they had begun breeding communally. In other words, the greater ...more
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
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