by Claire Spottiswoode | Sep 15, 2013
Cuckoo Finch eggs mimic those of their hosts, and the same Cuckoo Finch female commonly lays two or more eggs in the same host nest. In this paper we show that this increases her chances of tricking hosts into accepting the parasitic eggs as their own. By increasing...
by Claire Spottiswoode | Sep 10, 2013
It’s spring in the miombo woodlands of south-central Africa, and we’re back in the field in Choma. Nicholas Horrocks, Wenfei Tong and Claire Spottiswoode are just starting a new season of field experiments on honeyguides, and Jolyon Troscianko and Jared...