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What is brood parasitism?

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In brood parasitism parsitic bird lays its eggs in the nest of its host and lets the host incubate them. During the caurse of evolution, the eggs of parasitic bird have evolved to resemble the hosts in size and colour to reduce the chances of the host bird detecting the parsites egg and ejecting them from the nest.
e.g. The cuckoo and the crow.
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