What animals, except for the cuckoo, are engaged in nest parasitism? Detailed answer

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What animals, except for the cuckoo, are engaged in nest parasitism?

The most famous representative of the animal world, engaged in nest parasitism, that is, laying eggs in other people's nests, is the cuckoo. But it is far from the only one - nesting parasitism has been found in at least 80 species of birds. Also, this phenomenon is widespread in some species of social insects - bumblebees, bees and ants, the females of which penetrate into a foreign colony, kill the queen and lay their eggs. Nest parasitism also exists in fish, such as catfish from the African Lake Tanganyika, which throw eggs to other fish incubating eggs in their mouths.

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