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How Do Cuckoos Know They're a Bird?
Why don't mary and josephine do this? Well, it could be because they're of a breed that's less likely to perch in the first place. And we've had a question all about cuckoo behaviour from another one of our listeners, tod, in australia. Cuckoos famously lay their eggs inside the nests of other bird species, who then raise the cuckoo as their own. How does the baby cuckoo know how to act like a cuckoo and not like its host species? To find out, i spoke to doctor ros gloge from the university of sydney.
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