I previously talked about birds feeding chicks in Programming a bird. One explanation of why birds have the same behavior when feeding themselves and feeding their chicks would be that they may consider chicks as parts of themselves. Then both activities would involve exactly the same neuronal circuits, with a minimalist change on where the mouth is.
When the chicks go away, they are not part of the parents anymore, and the feeding ceases.Bertrand du Castel
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