Parent birds commonly face the problem of distinguishing their own brood from foreign chicks. Learnt chick-recognition evolves only when parents do not mistakenly learn to reject their own young.
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Kilner, R. Learn to beat an identity cheat. Nature 463, 165–166 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463165a
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