Formal comment to Soler et al.: Great spotted cuckoo nestlings have no antipredatory effect on magpie or carrion crow host nests in southern Spain
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1 Department of Biology of Organisms and Systems (BOS), University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, 2 Research Unit of Biodiversity (UMIB, CSIC, UO), Mieres, Spain, 3 FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 4 Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 5 Dep. of Agro-forestry, University of Valladolid, Palencia, Spain, 6 Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute, Palencia, Spain, 7 Departamento de Biodiversidad y Gestión Ambiental, Universidad de León, León, Spain
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Great spotted cuckoo nestlings have no antipredatory effect on magpie or carrion crow host nests in southern Spain
Host defences against cuckoo parasitism and cuckoo trickeries to overcome them are a classic example of antagonistic coevolution. Recently it has been reported that this relationship may turn to be mutualistic in the case of the carrion crow (Corvus corone) and its brood parasite, the great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius), given that experimentally and naturally parasitized nests were depr...
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دوره 12 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2017