Cuckoo's Cultural Legacy Revealed

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Cuckoldry, Clocks, and Horror: The Wild History of Our Obsession With the Cuckoo Bird

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Cynthia Chris , a professor of media culture at the College of Staten Island , City University of New York , has long studied how people view animals like the cuckoo.

Her new book Cuckoo details the extensive cultural and scientific history of the bird.

The common bird migrates long distances each year , wintering grounds in Central Africa , Southeast Asia and Europe .

Common cuckoos are obligate brood parasites.

The female lays an egg in another bird's nest when it’s unguarded.

The host birds incubate the egg as if it were their own.

The egg typically hatches first and the cuckoo hatchling will force unhatched eggs or newly hatched baby birds out of the nest.

I hope that readers who are curious about animals of all kinds will take a look at Cuckoo and the other books in Reaktion ’s wonderful Animal seriesâthere are over a hundred volumes in print! Cuckoo, published by Reaktion Books and distributed throughÂ The University of Chicago Press , is now available to buy as a e-book or in paper..

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