According to Nick Davies, the cuckoo is not the playboy of the bird world we
once thought it was. In Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats, he shows
that cuckoos and other parasitic tricksters are involved in an evolutionary arms
race, struggling to stay one deceptive step ahead of their unfortunate hosts.
Published by Academic Press, £24.95/$29.95, ISBN 0856611352.
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