Short Stuff: Brown-Headed Cowbird
On this episode of Stuff You Should Know, hosts Josh and Chuck explore the bizarre and oddly fascinating world of the brown-headed cowbird, a brood parasite bird that dodges parenting by laying its eggs in other birds' nests, all thanks to an ancient evolutionary relationship with roami
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