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Rim W. G. Lucassen
Researcher at University of Groningen
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Citations - 86
Rim W. G. Lucassen is an academic researcher from University of Groningen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Brood parasite. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 79 citations.
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Discordancy or template-based recognition? Dissecting the cognitive basis of the rejection of foreign eggs in hosts of avian brood parasites
Csaba Moskát,Miklós Bán,Tamás Székely,Jan Komdeur,Rim W. G. Lucassen,Lotte A. van Boheemen,Mark E. Hauber +6 more
TL;DR: Hosts rejected their own eggs and manipulated (‘parasitic’) eggs above control levels in experiments when manipulated eggs were in the majority but when clutches also included a minority of own eggs, supporting a mechanism of template-based egg discrimination.