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Explain brood parasitism with the help of an example.

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Brood parasitism is a method of parasitism in which the organism lays its eggs in the nest of other birds and let that other bird to incubate them. Example : The cuckoo bird lays its eggs in the nest of crow and during the period of evolution, eggs of cuckoo bird has began to resemble with the eggs of crow.

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