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Banded Ground-Cuckoo (Neomorphus radiolosus) perched on a branch in Ecuador, South America.

Cuckoos mimic the sound of musk hogs to avoid being eaten

3 July 2017

The ground cuckoo makes a noise very similar to that used by pig-like peccaries to warn off predatory cats, which could be evidence of acoustic mimicry

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Cuckoos mimic the sound of musk hogs to avoid being eaten

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