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What is brood parasitism? Explain with the help of an example.

Brood parasitism is a type of parasitism in which an organism lays eggs on the nest of another organism.

Example – cuckoo lays eggs in the nest of its host and the host incubate the eggs. The eggs are similar to the host eggs in terms of size and colour, this reduces the chances of the host bird detecting the foreign eggs and ejecting them out of the nest.


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