Life without parents
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Australian brush-turkey or Alectura lathami build their large incubation mounds from moist mulch in private gardens and after hatching they take average forty hours to reach surface and regarding this a query of how these young birds recognize predators, food and their own kind as their parents are not around them to teach is presented. Brush-turkey chicks use certain visual cues, such as body color and pecking movements, and acoustic cues to identify members of their own species.
Publication Name: Nature Australia
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1324-2598
Year: 2005
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Stress-proofed sea turtles
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Scientists had started learning ways in which animals modify their stress response to facilitate or promote particular stages or events of their lives. Female sea turtles began to shut down their stress response as they entered the later stages of the reproductive cycle, which occurs shortly before they migrate and by the time they had arrived at their nesting beach they had completely decreased their stress response.
Publication Name: Nature Australia
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1324-2598
Year: 2005
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