I suggest that the cuckoo's parasitic adaptations are of two kinds:'trickery', which is how adult
cuckoos and cuckoo eggs and chicks evade host defences, and involves adaptations that …

The interactions between avian obligate interspecific brood parasites and their hosts provide
tractable systems for studying coevolutionary processes in nature. This review highlights …

Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding
predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a complex and dynamic environment …

Brood (social) parasites and their hosts exhibit a wide range of adaptations and counter-
adaptations as part of their ongoing coevolutionary arms races. Obligate avian brood …

The interactions between avian interspecific brood parasites and their hosts provide
tractable and informative systems for investigating coevolution. Generally, these …

Theories of how humans came to be so ecologically dominant increasingly centre on the
adaptive abilities of human culture and its capacity for cumulative change and high-fidelity …

Coevolution between antagonistic species has produced instances of exquisite mimicry.
Among brood-parasitic cuckoos, host defences have driven the evolution of mimetic eggs …

Mimicry is a canonical example of adaptive signal design. In principle, what constitutes
mimicry is independent of the taxonomic identity of the mimic, the ecological context in which …

This book is a result of 20 years of my interest in reading and thinking about the bizarre
phenomenon of mimicry. This journey has brought me from the standard scientific world …

Prey are sensitive to even subtle cues of predation risk, which provides the evolutionary
potential for parasites to exploit host risk perception. Brood parasitic common cuckoos …