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What is the brood?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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6y ago

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A bird can lose feathers on their belly called the brood patch. This is so they can conduct heat to the eggs effectively.

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10y ago

A brood parasite is a bird, fish or insect that manipulates another bird, fish or insect and their nest.

The most common example of a brood parasite is a cuckoo. The cuckoo is a bird who will hijack the nest of another bird and lay their eggs in it, manipulating the poor bird owner of the nest to feed and care for chicks that are not even their own.

This is where we get the English literature terms "cuckold" and "cuckoldry" from.

Other examples of brood parasite creatures are:

  • Cuckoo bee
  • Brown-headed cowbird
  • Shiny cowbird
  • Cuckoo finch
  • Black-headed duck
  • Honeyguides
  • Catfish
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