{"id":8631,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ontogenetic_adaptation\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:48","slug":"ontogenetic_adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ontogenetic_adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontogenetic adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An anatomical, physiological or behavioral characteristic&nbsp;that serves a transient, age-specific, biological function during development,&nbsp;and which may occur relatively independently of experience. &nbsp;It may be appropriate for survival during one phase of development (e.g., during prenatal life), but unnecessary or even incompatible with adaptations required for later phases. &nbsp;As a consequence, they must be eliminated, suppressed or reorganized in the course of further normal development. &nbsp;A somewhat startling example of an ontogenetic adaptation involving a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/wildlife\/birdguide\/name\/f\/fulmar\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/wildlife\/birdguide\/name\/f\/fulmar\/&amp;target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fulmar <\/a>chick putting it to use can seen in the figure below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Fulmar-chick-.jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">When threatened by predators the fulmar chick vomits orange-colored, strongly smelling and sticky oil at predators. &nbsp;If it sticks to the predator&#8217;s feathers, then it glues together so that the bird cannot fly. This results in the predator becoming waterlogged, with the loss of buoyancy and thus death by drowning. &nbsp;While chicks also spit the oil at their parents, but they are immune to the effects (lucky for the parents as parental recognition is not achieved until the chicks are 3 weeks old). Although adult fulmars can spit the oil, the chicks have a better aim and can vomit repeatedly, an ability lost later, but one that helps fulmar chicks to survive during when they are most vulnerable. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"altricial\">Altricial<\/a>, Antecedent-consequent relationship, Cajal-Rezius cells, Egg-tooth (or crabuncle), <a href=\"general_movements\">General movements<\/a>, <a href=\"metamorphosis_-or_indirect_development-\">Metamorphosis (or indirect development)<\/a>, <a href=\"newborn_imitation\">Newborn imitation<\/a>, <a href=\"newborn_swimming\">Newborn swimming<\/a>, <a href=\"ontogenetic_development\">Ontogenetic development<\/a>, <a href=\"ontogeny\">Ontogeny<\/a>, <a href=\"ossification\">Ossification<\/a>, <a href=\"precocial\">Precocial<\/a>, <a href=\"progesterone\">Progesterone<\/a>, <a href=\"quantitative_and_qualitative_regressions\">Quantitative and qualitative regressions<\/a>, <a href=\"radial_glial_cells\">Radial glial cells<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anatomical, physiological or behavioral characteristic&nbsp;that serves a transient, age-specific, biological function during development,&nbsp;and which may occur relatively independently of experience. &nbsp;It may be appropriate for survival during one phase of development (e.g., during prenatal life), but unnecessary or even incompatible with adaptations required for later phases. &nbsp;As a consequence, they must be eliminated, suppressed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ontogenetic_adaptation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ontogenetic adaptation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}