Consider the following statements.
(I) Brood parasitism in birds is an example of parasitism in which the parasitic bird lays its eggs in the nest of its host and host incubates them.
(II) During the course of evolution, the eggs of the parasite bird have evolved to resemble the host’s eggs in size and colour to reduce the chances of the host bird detecting the foreign eggs and removing them from the nest.
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Brood parasitism involves a bird laying eggs in another bird’s nest, and the host incubates them. Parasite eggs mimic the host’s eggs in size and colour to avoid detection and rejection.
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