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. From Wordnik.com. [Informed Reader] Reference
Instead, they are precocial, which means that shortly after hatching they are able to leave the nest and feed themselves. From Wordnik.com. [David Mizejewski: Turkeys Are True Animal Oddities] Reference
Other techniques used to deal with unpredictable rainfall include drying and reviving, toxic sap, and precocial flowering. From Wordnik.com. [Madagascar spiny thickets] Reference
A few species have precocial chicks that depart the nest for the sea within 1-2 days of hatching, and are raised by their parents at sea. From Wordnik.com. [Alcids in marine ecosystems] Reference
In ornithological parlance, megapode chicks are 'highly precocial,' which is to say that they are mind-bogglingly talented and well developed when they hatch. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
They are highly social, living in mixed-sex herds of just a few individuals to several hundred, and females produce just one or two precocial babies that follow the mother soon after birth. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Joy in the Farmyard] Reference
Furthermore, there is some evidence that imprinting is an important aspect of early learning not only in birds but also in precocial mammals (that is, those born in a relatively mature state, such as guinea-pigs, sheep, horses, etc.). From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
It was proposed, for example, that the hair reported on Caddy might have a respiratory function (analogous to the hair-like growths seen on the frog Trichobatrachus), that the serpentine Cadborosaurus might somehow form a tuna-like body shape by bunching up the coils of its long body, that Caddy is viviparous and gives birth to large precocial babies, and that Caddy might be able to employ echolocation (Bousfield & LeBlond 1995). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
Marine mammals living today are all precocial, and energy is channeled to early growth. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Derrickson EM (1992) Comparative reproductive strategies of altricial and precocial eutherian mammals. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Incubation lasts about three weeks, and the young are precocial, able to leave the nest within a few days. From Wordnik.com. [Victoria Advocate stories: News] Reference
Chickens turn out to be a really good model organism for study in the laboratory, since they are precocial. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The horse is God's own creature, and as a precocial species, is one of natures kindest, most gentle animals. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The fetal skeleton has permanent first molars well mineralized, which indicates precocial development at birth. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
I am going to go right ahead and say that Carla Gunn's lead role, Phin Walsh, is my favourite precocial child narrator of all time. From Wordnik.com. [Coach House Books] Reference
Maiacetus young were precocial, or able to supplement their mother's milk with other food sources soon after birth, as are all of today's marine mammals. From Wordnik.com. [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference
Gunn's writing is both true to the way a precocial nine-year-old would see and speak of the world, but there is a fresh and assured diction in Amphibian that is a pleasure to read. From Wordnik.com. [Coach House Books] Reference
Some animals -- precocial animals, such as the porcupine -- are good to go almost immediately after birth, with all the natural defenses and instincts necessary to survive in the wild. From Wordnik.com. [DCist] Reference
Corresponding to the precocial - altricial analogy, helping by workers is selected in ants, while new evidence suggests that wood-dwelling termite workers are less engaged in brood care. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
Because of this, δD values for juvenal feathers of precocial birds will in general reflect those of the food at their natal site, which are in turn related in large part to patterns of δD in precipitation. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
This would have permitted birth of larger, more precocial infants, and we would predict that a near-term basilosaurid fetal skeleton, if found intact, would be positioned to be born tail-first as is seen in living whales. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
That's what you call precocial!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
Piping plover chicks are precocial. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
Thus Maiacetus was clearly a precocial mammal. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
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