10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRAECOCIAL»
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Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
It is not so with birds ; if there be any structural modifications correspondent to
altricial and praecocial nature, they remain to be discovered. From nothing now
known could either be predicated, in any given instance ; our inferences would
be ...
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Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Remiges present, well developed (except in one instance.) No hind toe. Feet
palmate. Tail small, but definitely few- feathered. Usually with modified feathers
about head. Bill singularly various. Altricial and Praecocial? Auks vary in details
of ...
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,
1869
3
On the Classification of Water Birds
It is not so with birds ; if there be any structural modifications correspondent to
altrieial and praecocial nature, they remain to be discovered. From nothing now
known could either be predicated, in any given instance ; our inferences would
be ...
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Concise English Dictionary
... appear: showing early development. — n.pl. praecoces (pre'ko- sez, pri'ko-kas)
praecocial birds (opp. to altrices). — adj. precocial, praecocial (-ko'shl, -shyal)
hatched with complete covering of down, able to leave the nest at once and ...
Italy abstract - We carried out an Immunohistochemical investigation to verify the
presence of p-endorphin, Met-enkephalin, substance P and ACTH during brain
development of praecocial and altricial bird offspring. The data obtained indicate
...
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Polish Journal of Ecology
(d) Assessment of the breeding success and pre- dation pressure. Nest checking
was continued until the hatching out of the nestlings (in the praecocial birds) or
their departure from the nests (in the altricial birds). A clutch was considered ...
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Bird-lore: An Illustrated Bi-monthly Magazine Devoted to the ...
Monthly, December, p 1902), advances the theory that all birds were originally J.
arboreal and praecocial, and that, because of the danger of falling, etc., to which
praecocial young, born in trees, would be exposed, the parents of those that ...
As is typical of other praecocial young, the juvenile spectacled eiders fed on a
large variety of objects, averaging slightly less than 13 species a stomach as
compared with nearly 10 for the adults. Gravel formed 1.6 percent of the stomach
...
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Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal ...
power grip See grip: power grip. * power set n. The theoretical upper limit of a
combinatorial message which is the set of all possible combinations of its subsets
(Wilson 1975, 188). * praecocial See -cial: precocial. » pragmatics See study of: ...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary: The Classic First Edition
PRAECOCIAL PREpraeeé'cial (sshal), a. (Of birds) Whose young can feed
themselves as soon as hatched. [as PRECOCloys, see 'AL] . praemunJT-'e, n. (
law). VVritchargingsherifi' tosummon person accused of assertin or maintaining
papal ...
H. W. Fowler, F. G. Fowler,
2011