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Learning to Find Food and Stay Safe

Learning to Survive

© 2004 David Jones (www.mybitoftheplanet.com)

For a few weeks the chicks stay near their parents who show them where they can find food and how to keep safe.

When the parents think their chicks can look after themselves, they fly away and leave them on their own.

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