.... It forages on its own. Birds are described as between the poles of altricial and precocial. The altricial hatchling is relatively helpless and dependent on its parents. The precocial hatchling is relatively independent. Some would describe the Brush-turkey as super-precocial. As soon as the nervous system is ...

.... It forages on its own. Birds are described as between the poles of altricial and precocial. The altricial hatchling is relatively helpless and dependent on its parents. The precocial hatchling is relatively independent. Some would describe the Brush-turkey as super-precocial. As soon as the nervous system is ...

.... It forages on its own. Birds are described as between the poles of altricial and precocial. The altricial hatchling is relatively helpless and dependent on its parents. The precocial hatchling is relatively independent. Some would describe the Brush-turkey as super-precocial. As soon as the nervous system is ...

... fly. It forages on its own. Birds are described as between the poles of altricial and precocial. The altricial hatchling is relatively helpless and dependent on its parents. The precocial hatchling is relatively independent. Some would describe the Brush-turkey as super-precocial. As soon as the nervous system is differentiated,...

......@hotmail.invalid.com> wrote: The math isn't hard, the situation under which it's done isn't easy. Oriental chicks apparently can't add. An Oriental chick would be a recent egg hatchling sporting an Asian artistic design? ========== Some of those answers were off by a strange amount and was it Pamela?? that answered the number that was on the last landing point (170). Team ...

...lorenpech...@hotmail.invalid.com> wrote: The math isn't hard, the situation under which it's done isn't easy. Oriental chicks apparently can't add. An Oriental chick would be a recent egg hatchling sporting an Asian artistic design? ========== Some of those answers were off by a strange amount and was it Pamela?? that answered the number that was on the last landing point (170). Team concussion...

...42 pm, Loren Pechtel <lorenpech...@hotmail.invalid.com> The math isn't hard, the situation under which it's done isn't easy. Oriental chicks apparently can't add. An Oriental chick would be a recent egg hatchling sporting an Asian artistic design? I was joking. It was the women that goofed it up, though. And half the men. (It didn't occur to me until just now that there are no co-ed teams left and ...

... bird is "capable of moving around on its own soon after hatching." The word comes from the same Latin root as "precocious." Altricial means "incapable of moving around on its own soon after hatchling." ... Interestingly, there seems to be an evolutionary trade-off in bird brain sizes related to the degree of precocity. Precocial species have relatively large brains at hatching - one might expect since the young, to one ...

...why so many squid are showing up in the area this summer. Um. Can you say "hot water?" Off the coast of San Francisco, at the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge, two species of birds will have no living hatchlings this year because two species of fish have died off because of warm water intruding on the spawning cycle. Oopsie. "How many years in a row do you see this before you start raising your eyebrows?" said Frank ...

... why so many squid are showing up in the area this summer. Um. Can you say "hot water?" Off the coast of San Francisco, at the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge, two species of birds will have no living hatchlings this year because two species of fish have died off because of warm water intruding on the spawning cycle. Oopsie. "How many years in a row do you see this before you start raising your eyebrows?" said Frank Schwing,...