{"id":137731,"date":"2013-11-20T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/?p=137731"},"modified":"2013-10-10T12:31:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T10:31:46","slug":"costumbres-del-cuclillo-en-el-parrafo-cuadrigentesimo-decimo-sexto-de-el-origen-de-las-especies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/2013\/11\/20\/137731","title":{"rendered":"Costumbres del cuclillo en el p\u00e1rrafo cuadrigent\u00e9simo d\u00e9cimo sexto de El Origen de las Especies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>De inter\u00e9s para ornit\u00f3logos, este p\u00e1rrafo nada aporta en relaci\u00f3n con la formaci\u00f3n ni con la transformaci\u00f3n de especies .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>416<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>It has been objected that I have not noticed other related instincts and adaptations of structure in the cuckoo, which are spoken of as necessarily co-ordinated. But in all cases, speculation on an instinct known to us only in a single species, is useless, for we have hitherto had no facts to guide us. Until recently the instincts of the European and of the non-parasitic American cuckoo alone were known; now, owing to Mr. Ramsay&#8217;s observations, we have learned something about three Australian species, which lay their eggs in other birds&#8217; nests. The chief points to be referred to are three: first, that the common cuckoo, with rare exceptions, lays only one egg in a nest, so that the large and voracious young bird receives ample food. Secondly, that the eggs are remarkably small, not exceeding those of the skylark\u2014a bird about one-fourth as large as the cuckoo. That the small size of the egg is a real case of adaptation we may infer from the fact of the mon-parasitic American cuckoo laying full-sized eggs. Thirdly, that the young cuckoo, soon after birth, has the instinct, the strength and a properly shaped back for ejecting its foster-brothers, which then perish from cold and hunger. This has been boldly called a beneficent arrangement, in order that the young cuckoo may get sufficient food, and that its foster-brothers may perish before they had acquired much feeling!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Se ha propuesto la objeci\u00f3n de que yo no he hecho menci\u00f3n de otros instintos y adaptaciones de estructura correlativos en el cuclillo, de los que se ha dicho que est\u00e1n necesariamente coordinados. Pero, en todo caso, es in\u00fatil el hacer teor\u00edas sobre un instinto que nos es conocido tan s\u00f3lo en una sola especie, pues hasta ahora no tenemos hechos que nos gu\u00eden. Hasta hace poco tiempo s\u00f3lo se conoc\u00edan los instintos del cuclillo europeo y del cuclillo americano, que no es par\u00e1sito; actualmente, debido a las observaciones de m\u00edster Ramsay, hemos sabido algo sobre tres especies australianas que ponen sus huevos en nidos de otras aves. Los puntos principales que hay que indicar son tres: primero, que el cuclillo com\u00fan, con raras excepciones, pone un solo huevo en un nido, de modo que el ave joven, grande y voraz, recibe abundantemente alimento. Segundo, que los huevos son notablemente peque\u00f1os, no mayores que los de la alondra, ave cuyo tama\u00f1o es aproximadamente como una cuarta parte del de un cuclillo; y podemos deducir que este peque\u00f1o tama\u00f1o del huevo es un caso real de adaptaci\u00f3n, del hecho de que el cuclillo americano, que no es par\u00e1sito, pone huevos del tama\u00f1o normal. Tercero, que el cuclillo en cuanto nace tiene el instinto, la fuerza y el dorso especialmente conformado para desalojar a sus hermanos adoptivos, que entonces, por consiguiente, mueren de fr\u00edo y hambre. Esto ha sido audazmente llamado una disposici\u00f3n ben\u00e9fica para que el cuclillo joven pueda conseguir comida suficiente, y que sus hermanos adoptivos perezcan antes de que hayan adquirido mucha sensibilidad.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Lectura aconsejada:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/digital.csic.es\/handle\/10261\/76630\">\u00a0Manual para detectar la impostura cient\u00edfica: Examen del libro de Darwin por Flourens.<\/a> Digital CSIC, 2013. 225 p\u00e1ginas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De inter\u00e9s para ornit\u00f3logos, este p\u00e1rrafo nada aporta en relaci\u00f3n con la formaci\u00f3n ni con la transformaci\u00f3n de especies . &nbsp; 416 \u00a0 It has been objected that I have not noticed other related instincts and adaptations of structure in the cuckoo, which are spoken of as necessarily co-ordinated. But in all cases, speculation on an instinct known to us only in a single species, is useless, for we have hitherto had no facts to guide us. Until recently the instincts of the European and of the non-parasitic American cuckoo alone were known; now, owing to Mr. Ramsay&#8217;s observations, we\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[467,22589],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":4}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137748,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137731\/revisions\/137748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}