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31Parasitisme de couvée — Rousserolle effarvatte nourrissant un jeune Coucou gris au nid. Le parasitisme chez les oiseaux est le comportement qu ont certaines espèces de pondre leurs œufs dans le nid d autres espèces. Le couple hôte incube l œuf intrus et nourrit l… …
32perissodactyl — perissodactylous, adj. /peuh ris oh dak til/, adj. 1. having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot. n. 2. any mammal of the order Perissodactyla, comprising the odd toed hoofed quadrupeds and including the tapirs, rhinoceroses, and… …
33Common Murre — Uria aalge aalge in breeding plumage at Runde (Norway). Note bridled bird in centre. Conservation status …
34Jon Fjeldså — Jon Knud Bøgh Fjeldså (* 13. Dezember 1942 in Hauge i Dalane, Norwegen) ist ein dänischer Zoologe norwegischer Herkunft. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören ornithologische Studien in den Anden und in Afrika, insbesondere auf den Gebieten… …
35sand grouse — noun pigeon like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young • Syn: ↑sandgrouse • Hypernyms: ↑columbiform bird • Hyponyms: ↑painted sandgrouse, ↑Pterocles indicus, ↑ …
36praecocial — adj. & n. (US precocial) adj. (of a bird) having young that can feed themselves as soon as they are hatched. n. a praecocial bird (cf. ALTRICIAL). Etymology: L praecox cocis (as PRECOCIOUS) * * * praecocial adjective see ↑precocial • • • Main… …
37prae|co|cial — «prih KOH shuhl», adjective. = precocial. (Cf. ↑precocial) …
38altricial — adj. 1. born naked and blind and dependent on parents for food; of hatchlings. Opposite of {precocial}. [WordNet 1.5] …
39altricial — adjective Etymology: Latin altric , altrix, feminine of altor one who nourishes, from alere to nourish more at old Date: 1872 being hatched or born or having young that are hatched or born in a very immature and helpless condition so as to… …
40sandgrouse — noun Date: 1783 any of numerous birds (family Pteroclididae) of arid parts of southern Europe, Asia, and Africa that have precocial downy young and are related to the shorebirds and the pigeons …
