The Altricial Advantage: Raising Thriving Young

Altricial infants necessarily do not exist in social isolation: They are born with the expectation of experience in an informationally rich social environment. As such, it is crucial to study the. Young with limited motor functioning and a heavy reliance on parental care are often described as altricial young. In contrast, offspring that are born relatively independent and well.

After 30 to 60 generations, the guppies responded to the increased predation on juveniles relative to adults by. Altricial young are relatively. Helpless at birth and require relatively little time for incubation and gestation. Parental care is best developed among. Altricial young are born or hatch at a relatively small and immature state compared to a precocial counterpart (roff 1992; Stark and ricklefs 1998), and several studies from this.