/sci/ - Science & Math

Brood parasitism is when one species (typically birds, reptiles, and insects) depends on another species to raise its young. The parasitized animal will hatch and raise the parasites young, to their own detriment. The strongest hypothesis as to why they carry out with raising the young and not just accidentally hatching it is that the parasites maintain control over the parasitized animals through mafia like behavior, this was supported by nests that had the parasite eggs artificially removed by scientists raising 60% less young than cooperating parasitized animals.

The term cuckoldry actually comes from this behavior of the cuckoo bird.

My question for you /sci/: Do you think brood parasitism, one species depending on another species to raise their young, occurs in humans? True it’s not traditionally seen in mammals, but so are lots of aspects of human life, like how our communities being more similar to insect communities than mammalian.

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How do you cut through the bog of primary literature to find information relevant to your field or research focus? I bookmark the journals which are not paywalled parasite fuckwads and skim through their indexes for relevant titles. I also use Frontiers (a massive and high quality free access publisher) which does a good job of breaking papers down to specific research categories. Still, I feel my method could be way more efficient. Are there any other resources I should be using. Also general primary literature thread.

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does the host ever notice that something is wrong.
why do they keep feeding it.