Question

Provide a table that provides explicit attributes of eggs and nestlings in regard to parasite and host species.

The subject here is Brood Parasitism. Can someone give me an idea as to where to start? Please and thank you.

Answer 1

Avian brood parasitism, or the laying of one's eggs in the nest of another individual, is a reproductive strategy whereby parasites foist the cost of rearing their offspring onto another individual, the host. Brood parasitism may be facultative at the species or individual levels, with some eggs incubated by the mother and others laid in foreign nests, or obligate. Brood parasitism may also be intraspecific, with eggs laid in other nests of the parasite's own species, or interspecific, with all eggs laid in the nests of other species.

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