When a reed warbler makes its nest and lays its eggs, a cuckoo later comes to lay HER eggs in the warbler's nest while the parent warbler is away. The cuckoo does this so that the warbler can take care of the her chick instead. The warbler takes absolutely no notice of what's happened and takes care of her eggs.
When the cuckoo chick has hatched, it usually pushes away the rest of the chicks and eggs out of the nest so that it has a survival advantage. So the parent warbler usually ends up losing all of her eggs and raising one cuckoo chick even after the chick has grown 3 times as big as the warbler.
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The cuckoo and warbler have a brood parasitic relationship, where the cuckoo lays its eggs in the warbler's nest and relies on the warbler to raise its young. The cuckoo benefits by saving energy and resources, while the warbler unknowingly raises the cuckoo's chicks, potentially at the expense of its own offspring. This relationship can be detrimental to the warbler population if cuckoo parasitism rates are high.
A parasitic relationship. The Cuckoo lays its egg in a warblers (E.g. Reed warbler) nest and the cuckoo hatch-ling expels the eggs of the warbler. Therefore one species (the Cuckoo) benefits and the other one is at a disadvantage (the warbler). So the symbiotic relationship is parasitic.
Cuckoos will lay their eggs in some smaller species nests, especially the reed warbler. The unsuspecting parent birds will raise the young cuckoo as it's own, at the expense of it's own eggs, which are ejected by the earlier hatching cuckoo nestling.
The cuckoo finch has evolved to out-compete the downy woodpecker in acquiring food, which has led to natural selection against the downy woodpecker.
The correct term for the opening at the end of the digestive tract is the anus.
Your question does not make any sense. Marans are a breed of chickens known for laying dark brown eggs. They range from a milk chocolate to a dark chocolate. There are several variations of the Maran, cuckoo, wheaten, black, copper, etc. They differ based on their plumage color and how dark their eggs normally are. Chickens in general lay more eggs during their first year of laying and then decrease over the years. During the height of her production the hen will lay an average of 2 eggs in 3 days.
Examples of coevolution include the relationship between flowers and their pollinators, predator-prey interactions like the arms race between cheetahs and gazelles, and the coevolution of parasites and their hosts, like the relationship between cuckoo birds and their hosts.
The coccyx bone, also known as the tailbone, is typically triangular in shape and is located at the base of the vertebral column. Its structure consists of multiple fused vertebrae that form a small, curved bone at the end of the spine.