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Re: [lojban] {ciftoldi}. caterpillar is not a cifnu
On Friday, May 29, 2015 14:26:40 Michael Turniansky wrote:
> And yet turtles and snakes and fish just out of the egg can fend for
> themselves. Are you saying the are not babies?
What you have here is the altricial-precocial distinction. This is independent
of whether the baby is a larva. Caterpillars are precocial; schadons are
altricial. Gnus are precocial; humans are altricial.
Pierre
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