altricial birds look like starsdamned shrinkwrapped dinosaurs when they are babies
i think it's really funny that altricial and precocial are just science-y ways of saying whether a species' babies start out fucked up and freaky looking (altricial) like a human baby or a songbird chick, or adorable and ready to play (precocial), like a duckling or a baby giraffe
(not actually the definition, but like, there is an extremely strong correlation)