A toy breed will
reach adulthood much faster than a giant breed dog.
Not exact matches
Millennials have become a
much maligned generation — they're either living in their parents» basement, or spending too
much time playing video games, or unable to buy a home because they're spending too
much money on avocado toast or delaying marriage, aka «failing» to
reach the traditional markers of
adulthood (hey, maybe those markers need -LSB-...]
The rats who as babies were licked and groomed did
much better on all sorts of things when they
reached adulthood.
As the body ages, and you
reach your full
adulthood, the body stops developing so
much of this hormone.
This fundamental deficiency garners scant attention in
much of the country because, in most suburbs and rural areas, parental guidance or social support enables students to
reach adulthood passably educated.
Even as a puppy, your Mastiff will probably eat 4 cups of food per day, or more — once he
reaches adulthood it could be as
much as 12 cups a day!
These breeds don't
reach adulthood until between 18 months and 24 months, so they require kitten food for
much longer.
But yes, I think that this general idea is probably one reason that socialization and fear periods have evolved the way that they have — they are a holdover from a social structure that made sense for their wild ancestors, with a closed social group and not
much reason to be open to new things after
reaching adulthood, even though these traits may no longer be adaptive in their current role as pets.
Whilst there is a considerable literature on the difficulties faced by young people leaving local authority care,
much less is known about how children who have been brought up in kinship care get on as they
reach their late teens and early
adulthood.