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(noun) a group of chicks or eggs in a nest; (verb) to incubate eggs or care for hatchlings
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The offspring of animals, usually a number of young that are produced or hatched at one time (Morris 1992)
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Group of young. Some animals mate and have more than one brood in a year.
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a group of young animals such as birds in a nest, or the process by which the parent birds maintain the body heat of the young in a nest by sitting on or over the young. The brood patch, a specialized structure on the incubating birds, is an area of the abdomen without feathers and with increased blood circulation to help transfer heat to the eggs.
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All the individuals that hatch at about one time from eggs laid by one series of parents and that normally mature at about the same time; a group of individuals of a species that have hatched into young or have become adult at approximately the same time, and live together in a defined and limited area, and they may be of different generations.
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