ADJECTIVE
- (of hatchlings) covered with down and having eyes open; capable of leaving the nest within a few days
How To Use precocial In A Sentence
- For the six grazing species with precocial young (wildebeest, topi, kongoni, warthog, buffalo, zebra), Fig 3. shows the frequency distribution of births.
- Moreover, chicks of precocial species generally require less parental care than those of altricial species.
- Altricial I lies at one extreme ( 'birth with eyes closed, naked, and nidicolousor nest-dwelling'), and precocial IV at the other ( 'birth with eyes open, haired, and nidifugous or nest-fleeing') [21]. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Derrickson EM (1992) Comparative reproductive strategies of altricial and precocial eutherian mammals. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Like its opposite, the altricial strategy employed by creatures such as humans and songbirds, who are born naked and helpless, the precocial strategy was sculpted by eons of adaptation to food and predators. Birdology
- Of course there were surely also many species which were precocial, but I can also imagine that especially quadrupede dinosaurs like small sauropods probably looked very clumsy when they tried to make their first walk. Joy in the Farmyard
- Like its opposite, the altricial strategy employed by creatures such as humans and songbirds, who are born naked and helpless, the precocial strategy was sculpted by eons of adaptation to food and predators. Birdology
- The newly discovered precocial breeding could help to keep the species from vanishing, the researchers speculate.
- Males leave the females soon after incubation begins, and females provide uniparental care for precocial young.
- Ground-nesting birds like the brush turkey are precocial — they hit the ground running when they are born, a crucial defense from predators.
