Photo: "Mafia Birds" Make Others Raise Their Young ... Or Else



She may look sweet swaying on a wildflower, but this brown-headed cowbird makes other birds raise her chicks—by force, if necessary, a new study says.

Photograph by and courtesy Chris Young


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