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c0nc0rdance
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Jul 12, 04:35 PM
You're watching a Crested Coua chick (Coua cristata) being fed at the Miami Zoo. The chick's outside appearance is ... unfortunate, but I want to focus on the weird 'targets' in the mouth. That's the coua's response to the problem of brood parasitism. Let's talk about it.
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c0nc0rdance
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· Jul 11, 12:54 AM
You're watching a Crested Coua chick (Coua cristata) being fed at the Miami Zoo. The chick's outside appearance is ... unfortunate, but I want to focus on the weird 'targets' in the mouth. That's the coua's response to the problem of brood parasitism. Let's talk about it.
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 11, 07:03 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Incredible !</p>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 12, 12:33 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">I though that this video had some weird filter on it that superimposed a face inside the chick's mouth!😅</p>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">That was the first thing that literally woke me up in my scrolling
What is in that mouth???
Whew poor thing</p>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 11, 07:48 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Don’t worry about your looks now little one, as you are going to grow up into one BEAUTIFUL bird!!! 🐦⬛❤️</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">c0nc0rdance</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 11, 12:54 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Here's an adult Verreaux's coua (same genus, different species) all puffed up as a defense against cold.
The 10 living species of coua are endemic to Madagascar.
They're in family Cuculidae, the cuckoos, who are (in)famous as brood parasites, meaning they lay eggs in other birds' nests.</p>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 11, 12:54 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Out of 160 species in the cuckoos, about 40% use some form of brood parasitism.
Those that don&#39;t develop defenses AGAINST IT.
The couas are the good parents, the Madagascar Cuckoo (Cuculus rochii, shown) is the local brood parasite they have to defend against.
(📷: Giuseppe Citino)</p>
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&lt;span class=&quot;text-[9px] text-slate-600&quot;&gt;· Jul 11, 12:54 AM&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words&quot;&gt;So the coua chicks have a species-specific &amp;amp;quot;oral markers&amp;amp;quot; which just happens to be shaped like a target, just in the throat.
Parent couas use this as a test for imposters:
No target,
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As the babies grow, the oral markers fade away.
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&amp;lt;p class=&amp;quot;text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words&amp;quot;&amp;gt;I can&amp;amp;#39;t find a lot about the mechanisms by which this pattern is imprinted, or what gene switches control it, but it&amp;amp;#39;s a pretty extreme way that evolution is combatting the problem of baby imposters.
Coua Chicks™! Accept no substitutes!&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
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&amp;amp;lt;p class=&amp;amp;quot;text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt;imagine if the marks got more and more complex as the brood parasites start copying them and the birds eventually invent the QR code...inside their chick&amp;amp;amp;#39;s mouths&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt;
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 11, 12:25 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Well, not quite the nightmare fuel that Gouldian finch chicks are, but still slightly unsettling!</p>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 11, 09:23 PM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Omg. I just had to go search that. Wish I hadn&#39;t!!</p>
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&lt;span class=&quot;text-[9px] text-slate-600&quot;&gt;· Jul 11, 10:07 PM&lt;/span&gt;
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 11, 01:26 AM</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 11, 12:58 AM</span>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 11, 01:08 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">I went looking to confirm a hazy memory about proposed ways obligate brood parasitism evolved and found an interesting article. Apparently it has only evolved seven times in five families of bird, three of those times in the cuckoos.
paranthrope.w.uib.no/files/2025/0...</p>
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<span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 11, 02:45 AM</span>
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<p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">What I was totally unaware of until I read this article is that the famous greater honeyguide, the bird that will lead humans to bee colonies, is a brood parasite. Fascinating.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater...</p>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Shy</span>
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<span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Mickey’s in Cognitive Decline</span>
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