In the late spring of each year, we can often hear the loud and magical bird call of "just now, just just in place", especially at night, this sound can be heard far away, this is the cuckoo call, and some cuckoos are "cuckoo, cuckoo", hence the name. In the classification of birds, the cuckoo is a species of cuckoo, belonging to the order Cuckoo, cuckoo family, usually about the same size as pigeons, but this bird actually has many names, such as Du Yu, Zi Gui, tí jué and so on.
Speaking of the name "ZiGui", people familiar with Chinese classical literature are not unfamiliar, because it often appears in poetry and songs, such as Yang Hua falling to the end of the zigui crying, sub-rules in the sound of rain like smoke, and smelling the zigui crying night moon, Shu guo once heard the zigui bird, said that there are many poems of the cuckoo, such as Wangdi Chunxin Tuo cuckoo, a thousand mountains ringing cuckoo, Junguan bird love to explain the cuckoo, there are also many works with the name of zigui and rhododendron as poetry, it can be seen that it is respected by ancient poets, not only that, the previous farmers also liked this kind of bird, because it is loud, When it sounds, it means that agricultural production has entered a certain stage. But this may be because the ancients did not know the habits of cuckoo birds, and if they did, they would certainly not like them so much.
There are many species of cuckoos, about 60 species, but at least 47 species of cuckoos breed and grow in a different way than all birds. If we measure which animal in the animal kingdom is the most cruel and shameless in terms of human values, the cuckoo bird will definitely come out on top, it is not only a slacker in birds, a professional liar, or a murderer who specializes in mutilating other birds and chicks, much more vicious than the traffickers we often say, and it is also the "unfilial son" of the "pit daddy pit mother (adoptive parents)", in short, it is impossible to judge its badness with the concept of good and evil of people, because "bad" has become a nature of it, it is innate. Biologists even think that the treachery and shamelessness of the cuckoo bird are written into the genes, there is no need to teach and learn at all, in the life of the cuckoo bird and even the growth and reproduction of generations, there is no emphasis on kindness and love, and some are just all kinds of treacherous means of self-interest implemented for survival and reproduction.
People who do not understand the life habits of cuckoo birds may not know why Xiaobian describes them in this way, so let's briefly talk about the life habits of cuckoo birds.
The reason why the cuckoo bird is lazy and bad is because it does not go to nesting and incubating eggs like other birds, its reproduction is done by other birds, of course, there will not be a bird that will help it to do this errand, so it thinks of a very bad way, with pit deception is not enough to describe, that is, this bird will stare at a certain nest before laying eggs, when other birds put eggs into the nest, it will take advantage of the absence of other birds, put its eggs into the nest, in order to fear that other birds will find out, It will eat one of the eggs of this host bird beforehand, so that the number is not visible, and the eggs it lays are very similar to the eggs of the host bird, the size, color and pattern are similar, and it is very strange that the eggs it wants to lay in the nest of the bird will be very similar to the eggs of that bird.
Not only that, in order to buy time, the cuckoo's eggs will also hatch very quickly, often before the host bird's eggs come out of the shell, and what is more strange is that this bird knows to throw the other eggs of the host bird outside the nest to fall off, even if there is a chick of the host bird that hatches first, it will also squeeze the chick out of the nest and throw it out, it has completed this behavior before it even opens its eyes, and there is no old bird to teach it to do so, so its nature is innate. It can also be said that its "treachery" is written into its genes.
In order to ensure survival, the cuckoo bird will only lay an egg in the nest of the host bird, but in the end there will only be one cuckoo chick, so that the host bird can only feed it, the result is only that it survives, and in the end it often grows larger than the host bird, but after the cuckoo chick grows into an adult bird, it will still repeat its previous generation's way of survival, and even lay the egg in the nest of the host bird that once fed it, so for the host bird, this behavior of the cuckoo bird is not only ungrateful, It is also equivalent to killing the bird that raises it.
Humans can't measure these behaviors of cuckoo birds with their own values, so it is really intolerable to say, but in fact, this breeding method is a long-term survival habit of cuckoo birds, and this habit has formed a nature. The nature of the cuckoo bird has undoubtedly become the survival nightmare of other small birds, so that the host birds it chooses cannot reproduce and develop normally, and biologists believe that many birds in history may have gone extinct because of this characteristic of the cuckoo bird.
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