Multiple choice

Ancient world cuckoos and brown-headed cowbird of North America do not make nests of their own. Rather they deposit their eggs in the other birds’ nests. Such type of relationship is termed as

  1. symbiosis

  2. mutualism

  3. commensalism

  4. social parasitism
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Explanation

Ancient world cuckoos and brown-headed cowbird of North America do not make nests of their own. Rather they deposit their eggs in the other birds’ nests. Such type of relationship is termed as social parasitism.

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