Nestling cuckoos, Cuculus canorus, exploit hosts with begging calls that mimic a brood

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Restricted accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Davies N.B., Kilner R.M. and Noble D.G. 1998Nestling cuckoos, Cuculus canorus, exploit hosts with begging calls that mimic a broodProc. R. Soc. Lond. B.265673–678http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1998.0346SectionRestricted accessNestling cuckoos, Cuculus canorus, exploit hosts with begging calls that mimic a brood N.B. Davies N.B. Davies Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , R.M. Kilner R.M. Kilner Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and D.G. Noble D.G. Noble Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author N.B. Davies N.B. Davies Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , R.M. Kilner R.M. Kilner Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and D.G. Noble D.G. Noble Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Published:22 April 1998https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1998.0346AbstractNestling cuckoos, Cuculus canorus, eject host eggs or young from the nest and are then raised alone by the hosts. Using reed warblers, Acrocephalus scirpaceus, as hosts, we investigated how the single cuckoo chick can command the same provisioning rate as a whole brood of host young. Large size alone is not sufficient to stimulate adequate provisioning because single blackbird, Turdus merula, or song thrush, T. philomelos, chicks of the same mass as a cuckoo were fed at a lower rate. Our experiments show that the key stimulus is the cuckoo chick's rapid begging call (‘si, si, si, si ...’), which sounds remarkably like a whole brood of host chicks, and which it matched in calling rate. When single blackbird or song thrush chicks were accompanied by loudspeakers that broadcast either cuckoo begging calls or calls of a brood of reed warblers, the hosts increased their provisioning rate to that for a cuckoo chick. We suggest that the cuckoo needs vocal trickery to stimulate adequate care to compensate for the fact that it presents a visual stimulus of just one gape. 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