Cuckoos and their victims: An evolutionary arms race

Cuckoos and their victims: An evolutionary arms race is 2015’s Croonian Lecture by Professor Nicholas Davies FRS, given at the Royal Society, London, on Thursday 14 May 2015, BST. Nick Davies’ fascinating lecture reveals one of nature’s most interesting stories based on his experience of cuckoo-watching. Watch and be amazed by the different guises in female cuckoos, beautiful forgeries of host-egg signatures, and manipulative begging by cuckoo chicks. To find out more about the event visit ou