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The "arms race" between cuckoos and reed warblers
Nick Davies is Professor of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Cambridge and he's fascinated by these cunning birds. How and why do they lay their eggs in other birds' nests, and then persuade those birds to raise their young? And we hear about some of the ways other birds have evolved to defend themselves.
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