1, Precocial - This term is used to describe species of birds in which hatching occurs relatively late in development.

2, The newly discovered precocial breeding could help to keep the species from vanishing, the researchers speculate.

3, Ground-nesting birds like the brush turkey are precocial — they hit the ground running when they are born, a crucial defense from predators.

4, Objective To investigate the X ray features of precocial congenital skeletal syphilis.

5, The Chinese civilization based on the extremely unenlightened level of productivity, science and culture inevitably bears the character of being precocial.

6, And this is the difference. I mean, not all birds are precocial is what Dr. Dial told me.