nidifugous

The chicks are nidifugous and follow the mother around after hatching.

The nidifugous young are well camouflaged as they forage with the parents.

It is most obvious in nidifugous birds, which imprint on their parents and then follow them around.

The chicks emerge covered in black down, precocial and nidifugous.

It is the opposite of nidifugous where the animal is able to leave the nest very quickly.

Nidifugous organisms are those that leave the nest shortly after hatching or birth.

The poults are precocial and nidifugous, leaving the nest in about 12-24 hours.

The chicks are nidifugous, leaving the nest shortly after hatching and following their parents to forage for food.

The chicks of birds in many families such as the waders, waterfowl and gamebirds are usually nidifugous.

Young precocial and nidifugous; fledging 6 weeks after hatching.

The precocial and nidifugous young fledged when about eight weeks old and became sexually mature the following year.

The young are precocial and nidifugous.

A second important finding of Lorenz concerned the early learning of young nidifugous birds, a process he called imprinting (psychology).

Young precocial and nidifugous.

Nidifugous young are born with feathers and are therefore are particularly susceptible to lice in the family Menoponidae .

This is a group that knows who is ridiculous, who is nidicoulous and who is nidifugous.

Lice in the family Menoponidae, due to their ability to feed on blood, are often the first parasites found on birds, especially birds with nidifugous young.

Working with geese, he rediscovered the principle of imprinting (originally described by Douglas Spalding in the 19th century) in the behavior of nidifugous birds.

The chicks are also unique for the usually nidifugous waders in being unable to walk and remain in the nest for several days after hatching, having food brought to them.

The term "nidifugous" is sometimes used synonymously with "precocial", as all nifidugous species are precocial - that is, born with open eyes and capable of independent locomotion.

The chicks of many ground-nesting birds such as partridges and waders are often able to run virtually immediately after hatching; such birds are referred to as nidifugous.

When the chicks hatch they weigh 14-18 g and are precocial and nidifugous; the male parent looks after the first chick to leave the nest, while the female takes care of the second.

In birds, the terms Aves altrices and Aves precoces was introduced by Carl Jakob Sundevall (1836) and the terms nidifugous and nidicolous by Lorenz Oken in 1816.

The two classifications were considered identical in early times, but the meanings are slightly different, in that "altricial" and "precocial" refer to developmental stage, while "nidifugous" and "nidicolous" refer to leaving or staying at the nest.