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  2. Killdeer - Wikipedia

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    The time dedicated to incubation is related to temperature, with one study recording that killdeer incubated eggs 99% of the time when the temperature was about 13 °C (55 °F), 76% of the time around 26 °C (79 °F), and 87% of the time at about 35 °C (95 °F).

  3. Entomophagy in humans - Wikipedia

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    Aspire Food Group was the first large-scale insect farming company in North America, using automated machinery in a 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m 2) warehouse dedicated to raising organically grown house crickets for human consumption.

  4. Surplus killing - Wikipedia

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    A stoat surplus killing chipmunks (Ernest Thompson Seton, 1909) Multiple sheep killed by a cougar. Surplus killing, also known as excessive killing, henhouse syndrome, [1] [2] or overkill, [3] is a common behavior exhibited by predators, in which they kill more prey than they can immediately eat and then they either cache or abandon the remainder.

  5. Precociality and altriciality - Wikipedia

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    A human infant, the best-known altricial young. In birds and mammals altricial species are those whose newly hatched or born young are relatively immobile, lack hair or down, are not able to obtain food on their own, and must be cared for by adults; closed eyes are common, though not ubiquitous. Altricial young are born helpless and require ...

  6. Distraction display - Wikipedia

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    In species with precocial young, distraction display is most frequent just after hatching, while in altricial young, it is most frequent just before fledging. [ 15 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] This may represent a greater tendency to display at the times when parental investment in young is greatest, and the young are still very vulnerable. [ 25 ]

  7. Human food - Wikipedia

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    Human food is food which is fit for human consumption, and which humans willingly eat. Food is a basic necessity of life, and humans typically seek food out as an instinctual response to hunger ; however, not all things that are edible constitute as human food.

  8. Predation - Wikipedia

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    Humans, as omnivores, are to some extent predatory, [171] using weapons and tools to fish, [172] hunt and trap animals. [173] They also use other predatory species such as dogs, cormorants, [174] and falcons to catch prey for food or for sport. [175] Two mid-sized predators, dogs and cats, are the animals most often kept as pets in western ...

  9. Four Fs (evolution) - Wikipedia

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    In evolutionary psychology, people often speak of the four Fs which are said to be the four basic and most primal drives (motivations or instincts) that animals (including humans) are evolutionarily adapted to have, follow, and achieve: fighting, fleeing, feeding and fucking (a more polite synonym is the word "mating").