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brood: a standalone construct

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brood1 CONSTRUCTBrood parasitismPAYNE · BROOD PARASITE

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Behavioural ecology

Offloading one's young onto another's care

In behavioural ecology, brood parasitism is a reproductive strategy in which an animal leaves its offspring to be raised by other individuals, often of another species, as cuckoos and cowbirds lay in host nests and some bees and fish exploit others' parental care. Payne's The ecology of brood parasitism in birds set out the costs the strategy imposes on hosts and the coevolutionary arms race of egg mimicry and host defences it drives. The referent is an exploitative tactic defined by who pays the cost of rearing, studied through host-parasite coevolution, and it shares only the word with a beekeeper's brood or an ornithologist's clutch of chicks.[1]

Unit
The reproductive gain from having others rear one's young
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Studied through parasitism rates, host rejection behaviour, egg mimicry, and fitness costs to hosts

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References

  1. Payne, R. B. (1977). The ecology of brood parasitism in birds. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 8, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.es.08.110177.000245

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