>>11598603>What evolutionary purpose does the 'mama' bird have for feeding the cuckoo 'child'?The parasitical cuckoo imitates the host bird's offspring
>Why hasn't evolution let the bird realize she is being exploited (or "cucked") by other bird groups who want to secretly enslave her and kill her young to promote their own interests?The incidence rate isn't high enough for the mutations to take hold and/or the mutation in behavior that would allow this don't concur a significant enough fitness improvement to be passed on at a significant level
>>11599418>But what if the cuckoos end up wielding disproportionate ability to control reproduction of the native birdsIf a large enough population of the host birds were being displaced by the cuckoos, then the host birds would depopulate and be replaced by other birds that are less susceptible to this behavior.
