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Combining personal with social information facilitates host defences and explains why cuckoos should be secretive
Individuals often vary defences in response to local predation or parasitism risk. But how should they assess threat levels when it pays their enemies to hide? For common cuckoo hosts, assessing parasitism risk is challenging: cuckoo eggs are mimetic and adult cuckoos are secretive and resemble hawk...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4726410/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26794435 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep19872 |