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cuckoo egg An MP3 file designed to aggravate music swapping users and help deter illegal copying. Cuckoo eggs are either erroneously named or edited. For example, a song with a heavy metal title is really elevator music, or, after a few seconds of the original music, random noise, speech or even cuckoo clock sounds are heard until the end of the file.The first cuckoo egg was released by Michael and Stephanie Fix in 2000. The idea was that eggs would be quickly propagated throughout file swapping services because titles are often not listened to before being made available to others. The term comes from the cuckoo bird, which lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. For more information, visit www.hand-2-mouth.com/cuckooegg. See Easter Egg. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Reed warblers live with the threat that a cuckoo will infiltrate their nest, remove one of their eggs, replace it with a cuckoo egg, and leave cuckoo chicks to be raised by the unsuspecting reed warblers. In a rare test of the idea, cuckoos retaliated against magpies in Spain that rejected cuckoo eggs, scientists reported in 1995. When the cuckoo egg hatches, the fledgling ejects any other eggs and young from the nest and then makes as much noise as a whole brood of normal chicks so that the host parents are stimulated to feed it as much as they would several of their own young. |
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