A cuckoo bird took advantage of the absence of its mother and secretly gave birth to itself in its nest. But the mother warbler returned to the nest and did not find an extra egg, and a natural tanuki cat was staged.
Something even more terrible was yet to come, and 12 days later, the little cuckoo was born prematurely. The warbler mother did not suspect that the bird that broke out of its shell in advance was not her own son, so she began to go out to hunt for the little cuckoo to eat. 12 hours later, two warblers were born, but for the two little ones, it was also the beginning of a nightmare.
Only to see the cuckoo chicks, who have only been born for more than ten hours, their eyes have not yet opened, and they have begun to push the last egg that has not yet hatched into the nest with their backs to reduce their competitors and ensure that they can get enough food.
This scene is surprising, ben is with the mother to fry why is it too anxious? Obviously, he did not have much strength when he was born, but the cuckoo is a bird with a strong survival instinct engraved in its genes, and the newborn chicks will use tricks to increase their chances of survival. After some twists and turns, the cuckoo chicks pushed the egg out of the nest with all their strength, and the reed warbler that landed on the ground broke, and there was already life moving inside, but it was doomed to survive.
After resting for a while, the cuckoo chicks begin to clean their nests again. This time, two hatched reed warbler chicks were killed, and it was clear that they were not as strong as the cuckoo chicks. The two chicks didn't know what was going on and struggled unconsciously. A chick was first topped to the edge of the nest by the little cuckoo, and his relatively strong feet contributed to his crime.
I have to say that the cuckoo is too fierce, the big war nest to occupy resources, not to mention, but also want to eat alone. When the warbler mother returned, she found that there were fewer children in the nest, and although she was a little confused, she fed the food to the only remaining cuckoo chicks. In the following days, the warbler mother began the tireless breeding life, although the little guy in the nest looked a little different from herself, but the warbler mother never gave up.
The little cuckoo began to grow feathers, as the chicks continued to grow, the amount of food was getting bigger and bigger, the food brought back by the warbler mother was not enough for the little cuckoo to eat, the little guy's food was like a bottomless pit, the warbler mother could only work hard, back and forth to catch more food to feed it. Even on rainy days, the warbler mother did not stop feeding the child, and used her body to help the little cuckoo cover the wind and rain.
At the same time as the amount of food is amazing, the cuckoo chicks grow fast, slowly the feathers are much fuller, and the body is almost crowded with the entire nest. I don't know how the warbler mother lives with this giant baby, usually busy hunting and feeding the baby's warbler mother also has to help the giant baby clean up the feces, it is really a handful of and a handful of urine, it is not easy to raise it. Fortunately, there is no means of paternity testing in the animal kingdom, otherwise the mother of the reed warbler will be killed alive. Raising such a big child is actually someone else's child.
Slowly, the nest could no longer hold the body of the cuckoo chick, and he could only grasp the edge of the nest and wait for his mother to feed him. The funny thing is that the cuckoo chick who is still a baby is bigger than the mother, and can almost swallow the warbler mother with its mouth open, but the warbler seems to be more stupid, and it is still impossible to distinguish that the other party is not its own child, and still spares no effort to feed it, maybe this is the maternal instinct.
By 21 days, the cuckoo chicks were able to leave their nests, but he couldn't fly and hunt on his own, and still needed the reed warblers to feed him. Sadly, when the cuckoo is fully fledged, he will leave his mother, fly back to his own population, and then inherit the unique job of his parents to lay eggs in the nest and continue to plague other birds.