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...

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...

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...

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

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...

(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)...