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The Birds and The Bees

TED Radio Hour

CHAPTER

The Parasitic Bird's Identity

Cuckoos can mimic other eggs, like lay them so that they match down to the shade of color. How do they know? That's a great question. We don't necessarily have a full-on answer to that as far as the cognitive parts of it and the physiological parts of it. The bird world is really where we see some of the best fathering, I would argue.

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