Tome's spiny rat
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Tome's spiny rat, also known as Tomes' spiny rat or the Central American spiny rat, is a species of spiny rat distributed from Honduras to Ecuador. The IUCN has assessed its conservation status as bei
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Proechimys semispinosus in La Fortuna, San Carlos, Costa Rica
Precocial species in birds and mammals are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching. They are normally nidifugous, meaning that they leave the nes
Tome's spiny rat
…and insects, carrying larger objects to a safe place before consuming them. The females can breed four times a year, producing litters of up to five precocial young. The reproductive rate seems to be limited by the availability of food. On a group of small islands in Panama, each of which had its own range…
A young chick stands up. Chickens are precocial birds and can stand shortly after hatching.
Altricial young birds
California quail chick (Callipepla californica), a precocial chick
A foal and its mother, a precocial mammal.