Read the following statements and select the correct option.
Statement 1 : Brood parasitism in birds is an example of parasitism in which the parasitic bird lays its eggs in the nest of its host and the host incubates them.
Statemment 2 : 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.
Both statements 1 and 2 are correct.
Statement 1 is correct but statement 2 is incorrect
Statement 1 is incorrect but statement 2 is correct
Both statements 1 and 2 are incorrect.
As we learnt
Brood parasitism -
Brood parasitism in birds is a fascinating example of parasitism in which parasitic bird lays its egg in the nest of the host and let the host incubate them.
- wherein
During the course of evolution, the eggs of the parasitic bird have evolved to resemble the host's egg in size and colour to reduce the chances of the host bird detecting the foreign egg and ejecting them from the nest.