Brood parasitism

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What Wikipedia says

Brood parasitism is a subclass of parasitism and phenomenon and behavioural pattern of animals that rely on others to raise their young. The strategy appears among birds, insects and fish.

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Image: Dario Sanches from São Paulo, Brazil, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.