American coots distinguish their own eggs from the eggs that other female coots lay in the same nest. They use a variety of tactics to minimize the adverse reproductive effects of the parasitic behaviour.
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BRUCE LYON
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Andersson, M. Coots count. Nature 422, 483–485 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/422483a
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