Talk:Altriciality

What about cavies?
Cavies are not born altricial. They are born with fur and with their eyes open. This article seems to say that all rodents are altricial, and cavies are rodents indeed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.204.98.127 (talk) 08:52, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

What about Precocial?
If one of several altrices is an altrice, is one of several precoces a "precoce?" Earlier I had merged Precoces into Precocial, because I could not figure out what the singular of "precoces" is. — Epastore 05:01, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

"Both altricial and precocial come from the same Latin root..." This does not make much sense to me. The Latin word altrix (gen. altricis) is the feminine form of altor "nourisher" (from the verb alere, to feed, nourish) and is not linguistically related to the word praecox (from the verb praecoquere, to boil before, ripen early).

Examples of altricial mammals
Gray wolves and dogs is redundant since they are basically the same species. Humans should be added. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.11.168.20 (talk) 10:31, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Merge Precociality and Altriciality
We should merge the articles Precociality and Altriciality into one combined article Precociality and Altriciality. Let's use Talk:Precociality for discussion about merging. Quarl (talk) 10:05, 24 October 2020 (UTC)