Brood XIV, the second-largest group of periodical cicadas, known for their noisy mass emergence from the ground, is the only group of 17-year cicada that will emerge this spring, according to ...

as was seen recently in an experimental study where male facultative interspecific brood parasitic ducks mistakenly courted females of the host species instead of their own (Sorenson et al.

This causes a female and the brood to travel great distances to suitable habitat leading to increased predation and decreased survival of ducklings. We see this a lot when people place boxes on ...

‘You’re the prettiest ducklings I’ve ever seen,’ the mother said. There was one egg, however, that was bigger than the others and took longer to hatch. The mother duck was getting bored ...