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    Fun fact: When a Cuckoo finds a suitable host nest she removes one of their eggs and lays her own egg in its place. Then, when the Cuckoo chicks hatch they push the host eggs or babies out of the nest, allowing it to eat all food brought by their new mom. 🐣🪺🥞

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    Tobi-Sempai
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    And if you're wondering "why doesn't the host parents recognize the cuckoo isn't one of their own? They can just kick them out, right?" Well, sometimes the host parent DOES recognize the cuckoo isn't theirs. However, this is a VERY bad idea for the host.

    In some cases if the cuckoo mother finds out the host rejected her child/egg, SHE'LL STRAIGHT UP MURDER THE HOST FAMILY AND THEIR NEST. In that case, raising the cuckoo chick is far less of a cost than the alternative. Cuckoos don't mess around.

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    Smasher1
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    Tobi-Sempai said:

    And if you're wondering "why doesn't the host parents recognize the cuckoo isn't one of their own? They can just kick them out, right?" Well, sometimes the host parent DOES recognize the cuckoo isn't theirs. However, this is a VERY bad idea for the host.

    In some cases if the cuckoo mother finds out the host rejected her child/egg, SHE'LL STRAIGHT UP MURDER THE HOST FAMILY AND THEIR NEST. In that case, raising the cuckoo chick is far less of a cost than the alternative. Cuckoos don't mess around.

    And here I thought crows were supposed to be the evil ɓird

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