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altricial species

species in which the young are incapable of independent movement soon after hatching or birth
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altricial species

Summary

altricial species ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (111 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • altricial species's image is recorded as Altricial chicks.jpg[2].
  • altricial species's Commons category is recorded as Young birds[3].
  • altricial species's opposite of is recorded as precocial[4].
  • altricial species's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01_6bn[5].
  • altricial species's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Young birds[6].
  • altricial species's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[7].
  • altricial species's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[8].
  • altricial species's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/altricial-state[9].
  • altricial species's uses is recorded as parental investment[10].
  • altricial species's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 167654180[11].
  • altricial species's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C167654180[12].
  • altricial species's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as ptentsovye-ptitsy-0010cd[13].

Why It Matters

altricial species ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (111 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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