### animal:

Chick
* All chicks grow early feathers, which last during their adolescence.
* Many chicks fall off unprotected edges as they run after a parent that leaves to get food.
* More chicks are able to survive when the marshes are full of water.
* Most chicks are killed by predators in the first six months of their life.
* Most chicks eat food
  - worms
* Most chicks get high protein diets
  - grow feathers
* Most chicks have bills
  - blood
  - dark eyes
  - distinctive plumages
  - downy plumages
  - gray plumages
  - legs
  - mortality
  - skin
  - white plumages
  - live to adulthood
  - lose feathers
* Most chicks reach adulthood
  - sexual maturity
  - remain with mothers
* Most chicks require food
  - parental care
  - show exponential growth
  - survive to adulthood
  - use lungs
* Some chicks avoid predators
  - become fathers
* Some chicks die from bacterial infection
  - starvation
  - of starvation
* Some chicks eat aquatic insects
  - insect wasps
* Some chicks feed on fish
  - whole fish
* Some chicks have egg teeth
  - ovaries
  - stripes
  - leave breed colonies
  - live longer but fail to thrive
  - lose weight
  - regurgitate food
* Some chicks remain with natural parents
* Some chicks survive birthdays
  - winter
* Some chicks use egg teeth
* acquire the protozoans by pecking at the feces of adults.
* add a pound to their body weight every four or five days.
* also listen to their parents while inside the eggs
  - peck at the red spot on their parent's bills in order to stimulate food regurgitation
* are also capable of flight
  - altricial , or helpless at birth
* are born altricial , therefore they are blind, naked and completely vulnerable
  - with their eyes closed and their skin is mostly pink in color
  - brooded for thirty days, they stay with their parents for almost a year
  - chickens
* are fed animal matter almost exclusively
  - by both parents on food similar to the adult diet
  - hatchlings from the moment they emerge from the egg
  - like human precocious at birth because they hear and see immediately after hatching
  - located in swimming pools
  - part of chickens
  - semi-precocial meaning they can leave the nest immediately and swim on their own
  - still incredibly vulnerable to threats until they are able to fly
  - susceptible to nutritional problems and pneumonia unless kept well fed, warm, and dry
  - totally dependent on their father for food and protection
* are young animals
  - birds
* become adults when they are able to breed
  - mobile after a few days
* begin to grow feathers when they are two weeks old.
* can ride on the backs of their parents or under their wings
  - run and capture their own food soon after hatching
  - survive on their own by about two months of age
  - swim as soon as they hatch
  - usually feed themselves two to eight weeks after they begin flying
  - walk as soon as they have hatched
* catch worms.
* cause problems.
* close eyes.
* communicate by making noises too.
* compete with each other for food and parental care during early development.
* digest food.
  - meals
  - mostly fish
* extend necks.
* feed largely on arthropods.
* find food
  - mates
* fly soon after hatching, but stay with their mothers and siblings for ten to twelve weeks.
* follow parents until they can find their own food.
* forage for food.
* gain strength
* get air
* hatch naked and blind and can be fed while lying on their backs.
* have a high survival rate because the breeding site has very few land predators
  - better chances
  - big problems
  - faces
  - heads
  - the tendacy to be difficult eaters
  - vestigial claws on their wings, which they lose when they grow older
* includes air sacs
  - bird's feet
  - bone cells
  - brains
  - breasts
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - chicken wings
  - corpi
  - flight feathers
  - ground substances
  - lips
  - marrow
  - mast cells
  - mouths
  - quill feathers
  - rib cages
  - second joints
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - talons
  - wishbones
* keep close to their parents while feeding.
* learn from their parents how to fly and find food
  - the colours quickly and accurately
* learns to walk and find food after it is first born to become strong enough to survive.
* lift wings.
* live off a diet of flying fish eggs and squid oil, a product that is rich in fat
* make problems.
* need care
  - extra care
* often drown in water containers such as dishes.
* open eyes.
* play by chasing or tugging on objects.
* possess feathers.
* reach adult size
* recognize the call of their parents returning with food and are never fed by any other.
  - their parents for up to three months, until they are able to fly
* require a high-protein diet for rapid growth and for the development of flight feathers
  - energy
  - high levels of minerals for proper bone formation and development
* sometimes die in the shell or hatch in a very week state only to die within hours
  - have to be taught to eat and drink
* stand on their mothers feet until they are eight weeks old.
* start eating on their own almost immediately after fledgling
  - fighting when they are only a few weeks old
* stay with parents.
* stimulate feeding by touching the parent's bill.
* survive time.
* swim as soon as they hatch and can fly within three months.
* take first flight
  - five years to develop full adult plumage
* weigh ounces.
* young bird