Citations:altricious

English citations of altricious

• 1908 May 29, Francis H. Herrick, “The Relation of Instinct to Intelligence in Birds”, in Science, volume 27, number 700, →OCLC, page 848:

  In considering the young we must distinguish between the altricious and precocious species, and remember that between such extremes every shade of difference exists. The cedar waxwing which is born blind and naked may be taken as a type of the altricious group.

• 1910 06, “Popular Science”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 555:

  A more curious sight, which illustrates the indefinite character of this association, is often witnessed up to the very last days of nest-life in many, if not all, of the common altricious birds of the country.

• 1910, William Estabrook Chancellor, Class Teaching and Management, page 220:

  ... in about one case in sixteen , he is a pure - blooded negro . Even so , he may come from any one of a dozen different races and tribes . Most negroes and mulattoes are precocious . Ladinos with much Indian blood are altricious .

• 1913 February, W. E. Chancellor, “Temperament and the Education of Foreigners […] ”, in Educational Foundations, volume 24, number 6, A.S. Barnes, →OCLC, page 339:

  It was apparent even that in some lines of inquiry or of action a child might be altricious and in others precocious. The abilities to read well and to compute well, to remember geography and to do carpentry work do not develop synchronously.

• 1974, Wildlife:

  Furthermore , the combination of a flightless , ground - nesting bird having altricious young appears to be unique amongst terrestrial species . Moreover , there is reason to believe that incubation and care of the young may be entirely […]

• 1988, Robert V. Harrison, The Biology of Hearing and Deafness, Charles C Thomas Pub Limited:

  Other animals can be classified as altricious ; in other words they are born relatively immature ( e.g. rats , mice and kittens ) and therefore complete much of their development postnatally ( see Fig . 5.3 for examples ) .

• 2014, Jim Davies, Riveted, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 111:

  Some birds start hopping around and looking for food within seconds of hatching. Humans, in stark contrast, are the most altricious species known, and helpless for a very long time after birth. As evolutionary scholars Peter Richerson and Rob Boyd put it, “We are the largest brained, slowest developing member of the largest brained, slowest developing mammalian order.”