Cuckoo egg
Cuckoo egg refers to the egg laid by the cuckoo in the nests of foreign birds as part of brood parasitism . The hatched cuckoo throws further eggs in the nest or already hatched young birds out of the nest.
The cuckoo's egg has become synonymous with something that someone else has been blamed for. This has negative connotations like that of the parasite . For example, children in the vernacular are called " cuckoo children" in some places where the mothers name men as fathers who are not .
In his book Cuckoo Egg, Clifford Stoll described a trick that a hacker had used in an attack on the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as "hatching a cuckoo's egg" (see also KGB hack ).
So-called cuckoo marks in marketing are related to the cuckoo egg . In doing so, brand associations are imposed.
