Cuckoo chicks manipulate the host parent by a number of strategies, one of which involves producing a call that mimics the call of an entire clutch of nestlings: This causes the host parent to feed it more. In this context, the call of the cuckoo is BEST described as a(n) :
A) feature detector.
B) supernormal stimulus.
C) fixed action pattern.
D) associatively learned trait.
E) ancestral trait.
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