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    In the biology of birds and mammals, altricial species are those in which the young are underdeveloped at the time of birth, but with the aid of their...
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  • More developed infants will typically require a longer gestation period. Altricial mammals needs less time to gestate compare to the precocial (well-developed...
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  • terms are also used by scientists for related developmental phenomena: altricial (relatively undeveloped at birth or hatching; helpless, blind, without...
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    altricial, and tend to be born small, blind, immobile and naked; chicks that are mobile and feathered upon hatching are termed precocial. Altricial chicks...
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    monogamy, to polygyny, to promiscuity. Many have litters of underdeveloped, altricial young, while others are precocial (relatively well developed) at birth...
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    birth to a number of offspring that varies by species. The young are altricial, being born naked, toothless, and blind. In most species of squirrel,...
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    well-known example is the long-tailed widowbird. The chicks of passerines are altricial: blind, featherless, and helpless when hatched from their eggs. Hence...
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    cemetery data which is unlikely to have any records of still-births and altricial deaths whilst a veterinary clinic likely would have data on these. Wikimedia...
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    overstimulation, boredom, wanting something, or loneliness. Infants are altricial and are fully dependent on their mothers or an adult caretaker for an...
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    give birth to a single offspring per pregnancy, but are unusual in being altricial compared to most other large mammals, meaning young are undeveloped at...
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