
Basic instinct
Unexplainable
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How Does a Cow Bird Find a Mate?
The ability of a cow bird to find, you know, identify its own species is encoded in the zygote. One way that's been shown and other birds is that when a young bird is out and about adults of its own species will identify it and literally bully it. That turns the whole process on its head.
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