hatching behavior

id: GO:0035187
name: hatching behavior
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The specific actions or reactions of an organism during the emergence from an egg shell. In Drosophila for example, the larva swings its head reiteratively through a semicircular arc, using its mouth hooks to tear apart the chorion in front of it and thus free itself from within the egg shell.

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