#brood parasitism

[great-and-small]

Me: *plays specific song repeatedly for my unborn child in the womb*

Person: Awww that’s lovely, music is so important to a developing baby 😊

Me: haha yeah definitely that’s why I’m doing it totally not so I can use pre-learned acoustic call-and-response as a form of protection against brood parasitism by cuckoo birds 👀

#warning this will not work if mafia hypothesis is in play #birds #animal behavior #brood parasitism #parasitology #esoteric biology jokes

[plasky]

I just had a really dumb character idea

So you know how there's like mimics n stuff to which they transform/mimic and object/thing/person

I then also thought of a cuckoo bird and how it inacts brood parasitism

What if let's say this was translated to a sort of mimic thing where the mimic leaves their child to some random family and the child shifts to look like they belonged to that family although still looking more off/off-putting

The mimic child then causes "accidents" to the rest of the children in the family leaving only them in the end to have all the food and everything they need for themself to live

#oc #oc idea #oc ideas #cuckoo #brood parasitism #mimic #mimics #and then the cycle would repeat for like the next generation or whatever #what if the mimic child also theoretically copied how the other children sounded to give the parents some false hope of their old children- #being alive #idfk where that would fit into it but yeah #i would have to say this would apply also to just like normal animals in general too #like cats dogs n all that jazz #because the mimics probably wouldn't be as successful if they only went for humans #I would imagine they only go after mammals though #uhhhhmmm #anyways i hope this post wasn't like too grim or anything because this is just a small idea i had for it #i would also imagine the mimic would eat its siblings if not parents at some point once it “leaves the nest” per se

[magnetothemagnificent]

'The Ugly Duckling' rewrite where it's a juvenile Brown-Headed Cowbird in a family of Common Yellowthroats.

#“and the ugly yellowthroat turned out to be a brood parasite” #birds #birding #ornithology #brood parasitism #brown headed cowbird #common yellowthroat #the ugly duckling

[imu-chan]

don’t talk to me I’m thinking about Wei Wuxian, the Jiangs, and the concept of brood parasitism and it’s causing my vagus nerve to try and kill me

#angst #brood parasitism #wei wuxian #mxtx #mdzs #ugh #how to remove vagus nerve

[rebeccathenaturalist]

I'm not sure why but these sorts of videos unnerve me with how they frame cuckoo birds.

here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQLCkfrlmnE

A commenter has said that the nest is likely modified by the youtuber. Videos I have ran into of this nature will often frame cuckoos as villians. I can understand their nature can make them hard to watch- they can and often endanger their nestmates and seem to act selfishly in that sense but they are still animals trying to survive. Sure, the biological parent seems like a bad parent for leaving their eggs in another bird's nest but that isn't exactly the worst type of animal parent I've heard of (there are likely far, far worse fates a baby animal could live through). And with any niche, there is an importance to their role. Could you please give your thoughts on these kinds of videos and cuckoos/parasitic birds?

@localcustard First, I don't recognize the species off the top of my head, so I can't say whether it's a species of cuckoo without doing a little more digging than I have time for right this minute (if someone recognizes it feel free to drop the species in the replies/tags/reblogs.) And bad on the videographer for moving baby birds around just to get clicks--not only is it stressful for all the birds involved, but doing so can spread diseases, causes greater chick mortality, etc., never mind spreading misinformation. This is the exact opposite of responsible nature documentation.

Brood parasitism is just another survival technique that has been evolved by cuckoos and other species (including some fish and insects!) over the millennia. It's effective enough to allow the parasites to successfully reproduce season after season, especially with the additional insurance of not having all their eggs in one basket--err, nest. Moreover, the host species still manage to survive due to a variety of adaptations; even if they do experience some mortality of their own chicks, enough survive to pass on their genes. And there are possible benefits to having a cuckoo in the nest, too!

Too many problems have arisen because we humans decided to apply our values to other beings, and then treat them accordingly. Unfortunately all that does is damage the delicate balance of the ecosystem those animals live in, especially when we decide a certain native species is "bad" and needs to be exterminated or otherwise stopped. The video's appeal is in part due to the scandal over brood parasitism and how it's supposedly

I think we need to drop "good vs bad" when it comes to nature, and replace them with "balance vs imbalance", keeping in mind what constitutes balance for each ecosystem. That includes accepting that the interplay between the cuckoo and its host birds is, in fact, balanced in its native ecosystem. We need to learn to look at these behaviors and traits in the context of the native ecosystems they evolved in, and only step in and act in cases where invasive species are using their traits to throw an ecosystem out of balance.

#localcustard #birds #brood parasitism #nest parasitism #parasites #animals #animal behavior #wildlife #birdblr #wild animals #nature #biology #ornithology

[heracliteanfire]

Common Cuckoo eggs laid in the clutches of various species (Nightingale, Redstart, Reed Bunting, Reed Warbler, Meadow Pipit)

via Natural History Museum

#cuckoo #brood parasitism #eggs #reed warbler #redstart #nightingale #reed bunting #meadow pipit #museum #Natural History Museum #birds

[jorblesandco]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: תנ"ך | Tanakh, Christian Bible (Old Testament) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: Qayin | Cain | Qabil (Abrahamic Religions), Hevel | Abel | Haabil (Abrahamic Religions) Additional Tags: Brood parasitism, Birds, cuckoo bird, Brothers, Brotherhood, Spoilers for The Bible (Abrahamic Religions), Biblical Scripture References (Abrahamic Religions) Summary:

Paralells between the brood parsite cuckoo and the original sibling rivalry. Inspired by a comic on tumblr by user spacerockband.

@spacerockband

thank you, your comic gutted me

#brood parasitism #cuckoo bird #cain and abel #tanakh #old testament #bible fandom

[spacerockband]

Strange Bird

#comic #comics #original comic #cuckoo #european robin #birds #brood parasitism #strange bird #hm idk how else to tag this. ask to tag if you need anything #i kinda wanna elaborate on this comic buuut i think ill leave it open ended for now. feel free to discuss if ya want :) #i am so proud of myself for actually finishing a short comic. i always get in over my head and they end up being 15 unfinished pages. #but i FINISHED THIS!!!

[hoofpeet]

Okay after some consideration I think togekiss is a good pokemon to parasitize !! Reasons being

-they're fairly rare, which leads me to believe they have small broods that wouldn't provide much competition

-Togekiss are also very friendly and probably wouldn't reject a parasitic murkrow even if they did notice

-Obvious fairy type tie-in

The only initial drawback I saw was that the togetic line has 3 evolutionary stages while murkrows only have 2; but upon further consideration that might actually trick parent togekiss into thinking the murkrow is just a runt that needs to be fed more to grow stronger? So uhm . brood parasite murkrow/honchrow variant because I think brood parasitism is cool !!

#hoof draws #pokemon #also dark/fairy honchcrow looks cool #i get why from a gameplay standpoint but the idea of mimicry is very very unexplored in pokemon !! #like. they can't just make new pokemon that look more or less exactly like other pokemon . #but irl (if they were real) there would definitely be a lot of species adapted to mimic other species #anyway brood parasite pokemon !!

[rubydart]

I had a big need for a fandom butterfly/moth display. Updated with an ID: Art drawn to look like a Fictional Moth/Butterfly display case based on 4 characters from The Magnus Archives on a 8.5x11" print. Big bug center top is labeled as "J. Sims": big green Luna Moth with multiple prominent eyes a bit like an Emperor Moth's markings, and holes in the wings that mimic the holes in a cassette tape. There's an eye on the mid of its body. The markings are more fantastical than the other bugs.

Labeled "M. Blackwood": Silver Clouded moth, smaller, to the right of J. Sims, with a cloudy looking pattern in greys on the wings, and two small dots.

Labeled "N. Sasha": Center-left. A blue butterfly but with markings that look like eyes and possibly claws extending across the top pair of wings. The wings are lined with black and white markings that resemble piano-keys. The lower pair of wings have golden markings that is supposed to resemble calliope pipes.

Labeled "Tim": Takes up the lower right side. A Mourning Cloak butterfly but with orange markings inside the wings that resemble flames. Mainly red wings lined with black then yellow edges, with blue spots across the black.

They are on a board with a spider web stretched across underneath them. The black tape of a cassette tape ribbons around the board in loose loops.

#the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #not sasha #timothy stoker #I'm so sorry Sasha #btw the Rebel's Large Blue butterfly caterpillar mimics ant queen sounds and smells so they are taken to the ant's nest as a brood parasite #moth fanart #tma as moths

[revretch]

I was out sitting in a field sketching today when a little bird started hanging around me! She started getting closer and closer, until finally she hopped up on my foot, then on my leg, then on my other leg! She must have climbed on me at least four different times! (She also tried to eat my pencil and pooped on my shoe.)

Anyway, I looked her up and it turns out she was a brown-headed cowbird--a type of brood parasite, like a cuckoo! They even have the mafia tactics of cuckoos, laying their eggs in the nests of littler birds and destroying them if their offspring isn't cared for.

I hope she lives a long happy life and terrorizes many little birds to come

#rev retches #bird #cowbird #brown-headed cowbird #parasite #brood parasite

[elliottnotyet]

Day 12 of Marchirp: brood parasites. I drew a cow bird

[Image ID: black bird with a brown head and a thick beak standing on a branch. End ID]

#cow bird #brood parasites #marchirp #marchirp 2024 #image id #artist described #art #bird art

[sheisalivingchild]

the songbird and snake imagery in tbosas is really incredibly versatile. Coryo is bird coded in a few ways, he's a jabberjay for instance - parroting what he's fed for the benefit of the Capitol - in relation to the rebellious district mockingjay, but he's also a brood parasite like a cowbird or cuckoo for the way he kicks Sejanus out of the nest and replaces him as the Plinth heir

#I really do need to get a copy of the book so I can pull the relevant quotes... #tbosas #coriolanus snow #just learned the term 'brood parasite'. obsessed #my thoughts

[thecreaturecodex]

What's your options on bugbears in Golorian being all serial killers or atleast obsessed with fear? I think that has room for, improvement. Definitely feels weird for them though.

I love it.

It's one of my favorite lore changes between D&D and Pathfinder. It makes bugbears feel less like "goblin, but giant". And Paizo has made it clear that some goblins mutate and just grow to Medium size, so you can have giant goblins if you want 'em.

@monstersdownthepath suggested that bugbears have a demonic taint to them. Despite their CE nature, I'd suggest sahkils instead. Bugbears are the Fear of Marauders, of Banditry, of Murder. Only they're mortal. But I bet a lot of their souls end up in Xilbaba when they die.

I imagine that small groups of bugbears are somewhere between bandit gangs and terrorist cells, roaming around and striking for maximum psychological impact as much as to get material goods. Larger communities would be like Halloweentown, only much less friendly. With running competitions for "most blood drained in a single evening". And adopting more terrible monsters into their numbers as Honorary Bugbears. Life's no fun without a good scare! If the Thing Hiding Under Your Stairs and The Shadow on the Moon At Night really wanted to kill you, and then looted your supplies and took over your village until the well runs dry or next year's crop doesn't plant itself. That's a bugbear clan.

I also love the implication in Ironfang Invasion, through characters like Scarvinious and Scabvistin (great naming convention too, IMO), that some, but not all, bugbears are envious of hobgoblins. They like the idea of civilization, of order and rigidity. And so they enlist. And because of their strength and power, they can succeed. If they "beat the bear" out, in Scabvistin's words.

So if you want to give bugbears another hook, here's my alternate, but not necessarily incompatible take. They're brood parasites. Because what's scarier than a baby that's not yours taking over your life?

We know that in Pathfinder canon, goblins and hobgoblins are both communal breeders (thanks to nursery locations in both Rise of the Runelords and Jade Regent). A mother bugbear sneaks into a goblin creche and leaves her baby behind, after killing one of the young and either eating it themselves or feeding it to Junior. The somewhat addlepated and mutation-prone goblins won't notice or mind a slightly hairier infant, right? And then the bugbear baby takes more than its fair share of resources, maybe knocks off a few of the other kids, and then either leaves the goblin colony at a young age in order to find more bugbears, or stays and muscles his way into a leadership position.

Doing the same to a hobgoblin community is riskier. The hobgoblins are much more in tune and observant. But in this case, it becomes more of a mutualistic relationship that could tip into parasitism on either end. Maybe the bugbear can get along in the hobgoblin village by learning discipline, or be content with the role of scavenger or brute. Or the bugbear could try to take over, if the hobgoblins are weak. And if the bugbear doesn't have the resources to survive and thrive, the hobgoblins send them off on a suicide mission.

And even though they only rely on other goblinoids for raising their young...most of the time, there are rumors that they do this to other peoples. Even if it happens once in a hundred years, everyone will know the story of how the Munson boy got very hairy and very big very quickly, and then slaughtered and spit-roasted the family dog when he was only 4? That kind of fear keeps the bugbears powerful. And makes the bugbears very happy.

#bugbear #pathfinder rpg #pathfinder 1e #pathfinder 2e #D&D #goblin #hobgoblin #goblinoid #ecology #brood parasite #plot hooks #did you hear the news about eddie munson? #could have been a werewolf of how keen his nose was and how big his sideburns grew #and then he burned down the family house and disappeared on his eighth birthday #you can still hear his laughin on the anniversary of that night #go to the ruins of the ol munson house if you don't believe me

[callme-cursed]

Hey you know what let's add some horror to the tag I'm bored. A lot of people have mentioned Marines mistaking normal children for marinelings. But what if the opposite is also in play.

You foster a child, such a bright young boy. His case worker says he's five even as he is already at your waist. Everyone tells you that's normal that growing quickly was great given his previous home. You do your best to provide but it never seems enough. He's own been here a month but he's already grown several inches. There is a hunger behind his eyes you worry about.

#space marine husbandry #brood parasite #it is a blood angel btw #wanted to write them having symptoms of red thirst then remembered i never had a twilight phase #anyway the parent gets chased out of town when the marineling get caught eating a deer in the woods #they take the marine with them

[abyssalzones]

i can't speak for everyone but i personally LOVE overly ambitious fan content that relies heavily on personal experience. it improves the quality imo, enhances the experience if you will. so much fan content is just retreading what the source material already did and it's like girl if i wanted to see that i would just re-consume the source material. fan content SHOULD be personal imo. it should have heart and do things the source material never would or could. so keep it up 👍 ok thats all

that IS refreshing to hear actually you make a good point. I have a tendency to get self conscious about putting anything I care about into the world, so hearing this means a lot and definitely inspires me to keep going ^_^ thanks for the kind words !!

#askbox #this was all prompted by me being particularly anxious about sprinkling trans themes in with the existing story #I generally feel like I work with the source material in a way that makes sense and expands on an existing groundwork #sort of having a conversation with canon intent I suppose #but I have those moments where I think 'am I stretching it too far? does this make any sense?' and it boggles me down #I worry about being a sort of brood parasite in regards to an existing story #but then again maybe that's the point. maybe that in itself is interesting #anyway.... thank you again :J