altricial

• “After all, we are big-brained altricial mammals, born helpless and requiring extensive adult care, who learn a variety of skills through different sorts of play.”

  The Huffington Post: Marc Bekoff: The Child's Right to Play: Let Children Be Animals

• “Like its opposite, the altricial strategy employed by creatures such as humans and songbirds, who are born naked and helpless, the precocial strategy was sculpted by eons of adaptation to food and predators.”

  Simon & Schuster: Birdology

• “IMO, passerine parasitism is mainly due to their altricial nature.”

  The evolution of vampires

• “Consequently, gauging the amount of external care she can receive from her kin and society is at large is very consequent to her parenting decisions, as altricial helpless infants of Homo sapiens are significantly taxing to raise.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » DOJ Boosts the Cause of SSM:

• “It may well be — but this is still somewhat controversial — that imprinting also plays an important part in the social - ization of altricial species (that is, those that are rather immature when born, e.g., dogs or monkeys).”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “With the altricial birds the young are hatched in an absolutely helpless condition, being both blind and naked, and it is necessary that they be fed by the parents, not only while occupying the nest, but also for several weeks afterward.”

  The Bird Study Book

• “The young of altricial birds, like orioles, and bluebirds, and thrushes, being born naked and helpless, have a reason for loving their nest-homes, so carefully and delicately built to shelter their nude infancy.”

  Days Off And Other Digressions

• “Chicks need food provided by their parents, and rely on them for protection (altricial).”

  Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth

• “The chick that emerges from the egg falls into one of the two categories: altricial or precocial.”

  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]

• “These once viciously carnivorous wolves have physically and behaviorally morphed into altricial beings that compel us to throw them birthday parties, brush their teeth, buy them clothes, and spend more money on their haircut than we might spend on our own.”

  Psychology Today

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