Talk:Brood parasitism

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December 15, 2012	Good article nominee	Not listed
September 2, 2022	Good article nominee	Listed

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Semi-protected edit request on 23 June 2022

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Suggest adding "intraspecific brood parasitism has been recorded in 234 avian species" ^[1]

This is the most up to date count on the number of bird species that perform intraspecific brood parasitism. Scolypopa (talk) 04:08, 23 June 2022 (UTC)Scolypopa[reply]

References

^ Yom-Tov, Yoram (2001). "An updated list and some comments on the occurrence of intraspecific nest parasitism in birds". Ibis. 143 (1): 133–143. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2001.tb04177.x.

GA Review

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Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 01:49, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:49, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Images are appropriately tagged; sources are reliable.

"Being larger than the hosts at growth is a further adaptation to being a brood parasite": shouldn't this be "at birth"?

Amended to "on hatching".

"The ant then brings the third instar larva back into its own nest and raises them until pupation": should be "larvae"?

Yes, done.

That's all I have; the article is in excellent shape. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:08, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the review, and the warm words. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:19, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fixes look good; passing. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:11, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Parasite ants

All or almost all species of parasite ants (where a queen invades the anthill of another species, in some cases killing the host queen, and their larvae was taken care by the host worker ants) should not be also considered brood parasites? They seem undistinguishable from the examples of wasps and bumblebees in the article. Or are not included because the host workers also feed the parasite queen, and not only the larvae? MiguelMadeira (talk) 03:41, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mm, they are treated rather differently by biologists. All we can do is to follow the scientific sources here. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:15, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 24 June 2023

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 19:25, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Brood parasite → Brood parasitism – Consistent with Parasitism, better a page about a phenomenon than about a single individual. Taylor 49 (talk) 15:03, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] Yom-Tov, Yoram (2001). "An updated list and some comments on the occurrence of intraspecific nest parasitism in birds". Ibis. 143 (1): 133–143. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2001.tb04177.x.

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