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
- Ground-nesting birds like the brush turkey are precocial — they hit the ground running when they are born, a crucial defense from predators.
- 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. Informed Reader
- The chick that emerges from the egg falls into one of the two categories: altricial or precocial. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
- Both parents remain with broods for several weeks following hatching of the precocial young.
- Instead, they are precocial, which means that shortly after hatching they are able to leave the nest and feed themselves. David Mizejewski: Turkeys Are True Animal Oddities
- Young in precocial birds that are fed by their parents also engage in vocal and postural begging displays.
- The young are precocial and are tended by both parents.
- Small eggs may jeopardize survival for precocial grouse chicks that rely extensively on nutrient stores after hatching.
- For the six grazing species with precocial young (wildebeest, topi, kongoni, warthog, buffalo, zebra), Fig 3. shows the frequency distribution of births.
- Males leave the females soon after incubation begins, and females provide uniparental care for precocial young.
