Sentences with phrase «brood pouches»

Generally no Sexual Dimorphism but females reported to be smaller than males in two species and larger in one; female brood pouches may be visible through the body wall when distended.

Mothers care for their young chicks and protect them with the warmth of their own brood pouches.

Burt's childhood friend Ellen (a pitch - perfect Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a Women's Studies professor who now calls herself LN; her common - law husband Roderick (Josh Hamilton), a liberated guy, loves male sea horses because they carry babies in their brood pouches.

In the new work, Adam G. Jones of the Georgia Institute and his colleagues studied seahorses off the coast of Perth, Australia, in which the female deposits her eggs in a male's brood pouch and he fertilizes and carries the eggs until they hatch.

In the spring and summer, a female D. magna will let her all - female offspring partially mature in her abdominal brood pouch.

It possesses the flattened forehead of a horse, the shifty eyes of a lizard, the long snout of an aardvark, the armored plates of a stegosaur, the brood pouch of a kangaroo, and the prehensile tale of a monkey.

Adult female Daphnia magna, with developing young in the brood pouch on her back.

The females carry up to 350 eggs in a large ventral brood pouch, this makes it easier to spot the difference between the two.

During this time, the male incubates the egg in its brood pouch for about two months consecutively without food.

Not exact matches

Some frogs carry eggs in pouches on their back, brood tadpoles in their vocal sac or mouth, or transport tadpoles in pits on their back.