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たくらん 托卵
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Noun, Suru verb
1. brood parasitism (planting one's eggs in another bird's nest, as demonstrated by the cuckoo, etc.)​
Wikipedia definition
2. Brood parasite​Brood parasites are organisms that use the strategy of brood parasitism, a kind of kleptoparasitism found among birds, fish or insects, involving the manipulation and use of host individuals either of the same (intraspecific brood-parasitism) or different species (interspecific brood-parasitism) to raise the young of the brood-parasite. This relieves the parasitic parent from the investment of rearing young or building nests, enabling them to spend more time foraging, producing offspring etc.
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Other forms
託卵 【たくらん】
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託卵: Irregular kanji usage.

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