The use of artificial stimuli in behavioral experimentation is pervasive and well precedented.
A perspective by Hauber et al.(2014) Ethology describes advantages of this approach and …

For many hosts of brood-parasitic birds, their frontline of defence is to mob adult parasites
that approach the nest. Mobbing is commonly interpreted as an adaptation to prevent the …

The optimal acceptance threshold hypothesis provides a general predictive framework for
testing behavioural responses to discrimination challenges. Decision-makers should …

Cuckoo eggs famously mimic those of their foster parents to evade rejection from
discriminating hosts. Here we test whether parasites benefit by repeatedly parasitizing the …

Many studies have found that if hosts observe a brood parasite at their nest, they use it as a
cue to reject parasitic eggs. However, most previous work has simulated brood parasitic …

Many avian hosts have evolved antiparasite defence mechanisms, including egg rejection,
to reduce the costs of brood parasitism. The two main alternative cognitive mechanisms of …

Interspecific brood parasitism represents a prime example of the coevolutionary arms race
where each party has evolved strategies in response to the other. Here, we investigated …

The division of calibration and validation is one of the essential procedures that affect the
prediction result of the calibration model in quantitative analysis of near-infrared (NIR) …

Many hosts have evolved diverse cognitive mechanisms to recognize and reduce the cost of
social parasitism. For example, great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus can …

Common cuckoos, Cuculus canorus, are brood parasites: they lay their eggs in the nests of
other bird species, and let these hosts incubate their eggs and feed and rear the nestlings …