A study showing that recognition errors and the probability of parasitism determine whether reed warblers accept or reject mimetic cuckoo eggs. The companion cites it for hosts that reject eggs only where parasitism is common, because rejection risks removing their own. It models how an observer attributes design when designers are common, the predicament under teleological saturation (C2).
- Cited in
- the companion paper
- Used for
- C2
- Strand
- Ecology: energetics, niches & interactions
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@article{davies1996recognition,
title = {Recognition errors and probability of parasitism determine whether reed warblers should accept or reject mimetic cuckoo eggs},
author = {N. B. Davies and M. de L. Brooke and A. Kacelnik},
year = {1996},
journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences},
doi = {10.1098/rspb.1996.0137},
}