Online Class Notes (Li)

Vocabulary

puncture – make a hole

ex. The nurse punctured a hole on my arm to give me an injection.

host parent – the ones that care for you but are not your biological parents

brood parasites – the hatchling that does not belong to the nest

deposit – drop/put

ex. Deposit eggs in other birds’ nests

ex. Deposit money in the bank

hatchlings – baby chicks that hatch

drive sbd away – to get them to leave

incubate – when birds sit on the egg to hatch it

ex. Birds need to incubate eggs.

foster sbd/sth – take care of sbd/sth

ex. You can foster an animal for some time before they get adopted.

offspring – children of animals

ex. animal offspring

Grammar

shove – push

ex. shove a bird off the next

throw – with hands

ex. throw an egg

There is a kind of bird that will kill other bird. They will lay their eggs in others’ nest, and their baby will kill other eggs.

There is a kind of bird that will kill another bird. They will lay their eggs in others’ nests, and their offsprings will kill other eggs.

They look the honeyguide as their children.

They see/perceive the honeyguide as their child.

They don’t need to take care of their children.

They have not enough food.

They don’t have enough food.

They need to hatch early and they will stab/puncture other eggs or shove other hatchlings off the nest.

They drive them away 

Some birds will shove the other bird’s eggs. Others will take good care of them, even if they are six times larger than the host parents.

Raise this hatchling as my own 

It has a very strong memory and it will memorise the difference between its eggs and others’ eggs. Then it will  shove the other hatchlings.

Another kind of bird will use the way of singing their own songs to recognise their baby.

This kind of bird will incubate to get their eggs to hatch and they will sing to their eggs.

They will abandon all of them and start a new nest.

They can distinguish the eggs and the brood parasites.

When the host want to get rid of the brood parasites’ egg, they may kill their own babies.

When the host wants to get rid of the brood parasites’ egg, they may mistakenly kill their own babies.