mambas are highly precocial; as hatchlings, they are fully independent, and are capable of hunting prey the size of a small rat. Precociality is thought to...

of precocious but nidicolous species include many gulls and terns. Precociality and altriciality Parental investment "nidifugous". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary...

a child Kin selection Mate desertion Parental care in birds Precociality and altriciality r/K selection theory Clutton-Brock, T.H. 1991. The Evolution...

feed and breathe. In some species, the offspring is precocial and can move around almost immediately after birth but in others, it is altricial and completely...

fit into either the precocial or altricial category, having some aspects of each and thus fall somewhere on an altricial-precocial spectrum. A defined...

of extreme precociality (Elzanowski, 1981; Zhou and Zhang, 2004; Xing et al., 2017)." Starck, J.M. & Ricklefs, R.E. (1998). Avian Growth and Development:...

gestation period. Altricial mammals needs less time to gestate compare to the precocial (well-developed neonate) mammal. A typical precocial mammal has a gestation...

with precocial and altricial young. In species with precocial young, distraction display is most frequent just after hatching, while in altricial young...

with altricial young, he proposed that optimal clutch size was determined by the number of young a parent could feed until fledgling. In precocial birds...

altricial, and tend to be born small, blind, immobile and naked; chicks that are mobile and feathered upon hatching are termed precocial. Altricial chicks...

(called leverets) are born precocial (eyes and ears open, fully furred), while young rabbits (called kits) are born altricial (eyes and ears closed, no fur)...

hatching or birth and becoming capable of flight. This term is most frequently applied to birds, but is also used for bats. For altricial birds, those that...

automatically, but ducks and geese may pluck and use their feathers to line the nest. Feathers regrow sooner after hatching in precocial birds than for those...

non-avian theropods (100–1000 kg) approximated those of precocial birds, which are much slower than altricial birds. Large theropods (1500–3500 kg) grew even...

from that of a chicken, a precocial bird, because a Zebra Finch is an altricial bird that has different stages of growth and a shorter incubation time...

Peter T.; Pontzer, Herman (2012-09-18). "Metabolic hypothesis for human altriciality". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (38): 15212–15216...

be altricial or precocial. Altricial means that the young hatch naked and with their eyes closed, and rely totally on their parents for feeding and warmth...

physiology generally, including not only metabolic systems and thermoregulation, but on respiratory and cardiovascular systems as well. During the early years...

protection. In contrast, precocial animals are born with open eyes, have hair or down, have large brains, and are immediately mobile and somewhat able to flee...

gestation period of the pika is around one month long, and the newborns are altricial (eyes and ears closed, no fur). The social behaviour of the two groups...

and with eyes open. They are hence precocial, able to fend for themselves soon after birth. By contrast, rabbits are altricial, being born blind and hairless...

Marsupials are extremely altricial animals, needing to be intensely cared for immediately following birth (cf. precocial). Newborn marsupials lack histologically...

most predators which are altricial (born helpless), horses are precocial, meaning they come into the world relatively mature and mobile. Healthy foals can...

in their early development. Precocial nestlings are already covered with a layer of down when they hatch, while altricial nestlings develop their down...

developed (precocial) young, usually after long gestation periods, while some others, e.g. mouse, give birth to underdeveloped young. Sexual maturity and thus...

Retrieved 17 May 2007. Paul R. Ehrlich; David S. Dobkin & Darryl Wheye. "Precocial and Atricial". Retrieved 6 May 2007. Wikimedia Commons has media related...

greatly in the first few weeks of development and some studies have correlated this to the degree of precociality of the child. Within a few months of postnatal...

Rhamphorhynchus could fly soon after hatching, supporting the theory of precociality in the species. It has also been suggested that juveniles may have occupied...

white-winged doves invest more energy in feeding altricial young instead of laying large eggs that would enable precocial young. Males attend to the nest for the...

food and protection. Precocial birds can care for themselves independently within minutes of hatching; altricial hatchlings are helpless, blind, and naked...