a peculiar behaviour practised by certain birds in which eggs are laid in the nests of other birds, causing them to be hatched and the young reared by the hosts.
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The behaviour is believed to be a parasitism called as BROOD PARASITISM
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Brood parasitism
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Brood parasitism is a type of social parasitism in which eggs are laid in nests of other birds, causing them to be hatched and the young reared by the hosts, often at cost of hosts' own young.
Example: cuckoo, cowbird
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