I don’t have kids, but I imagine that being forced to unknowingly raise someone else’s children — either in addition to your own or after yours have been murdered — would be at the top of every parent ...

Brood parasites are some of the bird kingdom’s most notorious sneaks. They don’t rear their own young but instead pawn the task of child care off onto other species without their knowledge. Instead of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parenting can be lots of work for a bird: all that flying back and forth transporting grubs and insects to a nest of demanding ...

Several animal species display brood care, a phenomenon where ‘caring’ parents provide their offspring with food and protection against predators. However, there are many others that prefer not to do ...

A carrion crow brood parasitized by a great spotted cuckoo is shown. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 21 March, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Daniela ...