How To Use Precocial In A Sentence
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For the six grazing species with precocial young (wildebeest, topi, kongoni, warthog, buffalo, zebra), Fig 3. shows the frequency distribution of births.
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Moreover, chicks of precocial species generally require less parental care than those of altricial species.
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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].
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Derrickson EM (1992) Comparative reproductive strategies of altricial and precocial eutherian mammals.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The newly discovered precocial breeding could help to keep the species from vanishing, the researchers speculate.
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Males leave the females soon after incubation begins, and females provide uniparental care for precocial young.
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Ground-nesting birds like the brush turkey are precocial — they hit the ground running when they are born, a crucial defense from predators.
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Small eggs may jeopardize survival for precocial grouse chicks that rely extensively on nutrient stores after hatching.
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The young are precocial and are tended by both parents.
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Young in precocial birds that are fed by their parents also engage in vocal and postural begging displays.
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Instead, they are precocial, which means that shortly after hatching they are able to leave the nest and feed themselves.
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Both parents remain with broods for several weeks following hatching of the precocial young.
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The chick that emerges from the egg falls into one of the two categories: altricial or precocial.
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A newborn from a so-called precocial species -- one that isn't utterly helpless without its parents -- learns to recognize its parents 'traits in a process known as filial imprinting.
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