Sentences with phrase «by laying eggs»

Most fish reproduce by laying eggs, though some fish, such as great white sharks, give birth to live babies called pups.

Cooperative behaviors in ants are rooted in the kin selection advantage that shaped these insects» evolution: The female workers pass more of their own genes to the next generation by supporting their egg - laying mother than by laying eggs of their own.

Normally, the honeybee is no exception to this rule: the female queen bee produces new offspring by laying eggs that have been fertilised by sperm from male drones.

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A number of tribes of Australian Aboriginals believe that the World was created by a great snake shaking and laying an egg during the dreamtime.

The common chook was designed with the ability to lay eggs which it incubates by sitting on it for many weeks.

fill the egg rolls by laying a wrapper out flat and filling with 2 tablespoons of chicken mixture OR 1 1/2 teaspoons for mini egg rolls

Knecht cites statistics from a North Carolina State University study conducted by Kenneth Anderson comparing egg - laying methods.

A report by consumer group Choice found the average cost of cage eggs was 43 cents per 100g, while the cost of barn - laid eggs was 80 cents and free - range eggs 93 cents.

Happy hens, raised by caring hands, lay our Beyond Organic eggs while living free, as chickens naturally should.

My flour must have been extra dry, or perhaps the egg was not large enough, because the batter was rather stiff, but I used the batter as it was for the base, pressed into the pan by hand, laid out the fruit on top of that, and added a sprinkle of mace over the fruit.

I'd lay them out by the Easter plant that I decorated with colored eggs and chocolate candy....

This year alone, there will be 15 million fewer egg - laying hens in battery cages, and by 2025, nearly all of the laying hens in the U.S. will be raised cage - free.

It's been a most victorious year for egg - laying hens — at least, the ones who will be laying eggs in 2025 — the deadline set by most major supermarkets and leading fast food chains including McDonald's, to transition away from tiny and cramped battery cages, the egg industry norm for more than a half - century.

Assemble the sandwiches by laying either the whole portobello cap or slices over a split foccacia bread smeared with aoli dressing, Annie's Naturals Goddess Dressing, or egg - free mayonnaise.

Our essential Waitrose eggs and British Blacktail eggs are laid by hens that live in true free - range systems with plenty of space to exhibit natural behaviours and lots of range enrichment to ensure their wellbeing.

All Waitrose eggs are laid by free - range hens; none of our eggs are supplied through caged or barn systems.

Ms Kos slammed a provision in the draft standard which claimed that free range eggs are «laid by hens that had meaningful and regular access to an outdoor range during daylight hours».

In big news for laying hens, as part of the Open Wing Alliance, Animals Australia helps convince General Mills — one of the world's largest food companies — to go cage - egg - free by 2025!

INDUSTRY DEFINITIONS & FINDINGS: HR 3798 Legislation, written and supported by both the United Egg Producers (UEP) and the Humane Society of the US (HSUS), and introduced in the last Congress, defines «Free Range» as: «(1) «Eggs from free - range hens» to indicate that the egg - laying hens from which the eggs or egg products were derived were, during egg production ----(A) not housed in caging devices; and (B) provided with outdoor access.&raqEgg Producers (UEP) and the Humane Society of the US (HSUS), and introduced in the last Congress, defines «Free Range» as: «(1) «Eggs from free - range hens» to indicate that the egg - laying hens from which the eggs or egg products were derived were, during egg production ----(A) not housed in caging devices; and (B) provided with outdoor access.&raqegg - laying hens from which the eggs or egg products were derived were, during egg production ----(A) not housed in caging devices; and (B) provided with outdoor access.&raqegg products were derived were, during egg production ----(A) not housed in caging devices; and (B) provided with outdoor access.&raqegg production ----(A) not housed in caging devices; and (B) provided with outdoor access.»

In 2013, they were riding a five - game winning streak — which featured victories over nine - win Navy and eventual 10 - win conference champ Bowling Green — when NIU came to town but laid an egg and lost by 18.

Watchful Crip, one of three whooping cranes in captivity, stands guard over two eggs laid by mate at New Orleans zoo.

It would be shocking if the Wolverines laid the same kind of bowl egg that the Rebels did to close 2014 (for one of many reasons, Florida isn't 2014 TCU), and the defense could get better simply by getting some rest.

And unlike Rutgers, Illinois» problems couldn't be explained by the propensity for egg - laying in big games.

After that, his team laid an egg in its SEC debut; the Tigers were waylaid by injuries and went 5 - 7.

Even under the best conditions on supposedly «humane» farms, the animals often come from breeding facilities that kill the males by inhumane methods (egg hatcheries where most laying hens come from) or the mothers are not allowed to do what comes naturally during pregnancy and their babies are taken away after a few days or less (as in the dairy industry).

Encourage your own butterfly to lay some little eggs in your garden by planting some butterfly - friendly flowers and this Very Hungry Caterpillar garden set means that your kids will come along and join you outside growing and nurturing their own garden.

The only eggs that can be made safer by soft - boiling are eggs that were laid in a clean area and not previously washed.

We spend our time getting together with friends (cooking farmer's - market - inspired meals, often incorporating eggs laid by our two backyard chickens); traveling near (we love the North Cascades) and far (we count trips to Morocco and South Africa as our favorites).

The flies are strongly attracted by the fruits of the morinda tree: they feed on its fruits, and females prefer to lay their eggs on these.

As this drives the evolution of resistance, Andrew Read at Pennsylvania State University in University Park decided to examine what happened if this selection pressure was removed by only killing elderly mosquitoes that had already laid eggs.

«Thanks to this fossil, we now know that these eggs were laid by a gigantic oviraptorosaur, a dinosaur that would have looked a lot like an overgrown cassowary.

Malaria transmission can be reduced by preventing mosquito bites with mosquito nets and insect repellents, or by mosquito control by spraying insecticides inside houses and draining standing water where mosquitoes lay their eggs.

A team of researchers from the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, led by Sonja Bisch - Knaden, has investigated whether neural activity patterns linked to either feeding or egg - laying behavior can already be observed in the antennal lobe, which is the first processing level of scents in the insect brain.

LMU biologists led by Professor Nicolas Gompel, in a collaboration with the groups of Dr. Benjamin Prud «homme (CNRS, France) and Professor Ilona Grunwald Kadow (Technical University, Munich), have begun to explore the genetic basis for this unusual egg - laying behavior.

Larger Pacific Striped octopus; image courtesy of Richard Ross Of the hundreds of known octopus species, most are anti-social, practice safe sex (to avoid getting eaten by a mate) and lay just one clutch of eggs before dying.The poorly understood larger Pacific striped octopus, however, seems to break from these conventions: They are somewhat social, they mate face - to - face, and the females produce multiple batches of offspring.The octopus is so rare that science has yet to even give it a formal Latin name.

By replacing early and late eggs in field experiments, the team found that by biasing the sex of the eggs and laying them in a particular order, the mother increased chick survival by 10 % to 20 % over chicks from eggs laid in no particular order, they report in the 11 January issue of SciencBy replacing early and late eggs in field experiments, the team found that by biasing the sex of the eggs and laying them in a particular order, the mother increased chick survival by 10 % to 20 % over chicks from eggs laid in no particular order, they report in the 11 January issue of Sciencby biasing the sex of the eggs and laying them in a particular order, the mother increased chick survival by 10 % to 20 % over chicks from eggs laid in no particular order, they report in the 11 January issue of Sciencby 10 % to 20 % over chicks from eggs laid in no particular order, they report in the 11 January issue of Science.

After an egg is laid, researchers can tell how much sperm the female has left by counting the number of sperm caught between the egg membrane and the shell.

Female collared flycatchers settle their nests with one mate but often lay eggs fathered by a studlier male.

The secret, the team reports in the 17 August issue of Science, was that eggs laid by females in cooperative groups were 5 % smaller than those laid by females who bred in pairs, and their yolks had 12 % less lipids and 13 % less protein.

The eggs of both species are laid on the outside of the colony and then eventually adopted by the ants.

Curious as to whether the males might benefit from the situation by passing on more of their own genes, Emlen and his colleagues observed the mating and egg - laying habits of the jacanas on the Chagres River in Panama for 6 years.

Females lay their eggs on vegetation which overhangs ponds, where they may be eaten by the cat - eyed snake.

Maybe this individual was the ant or wasp that arrived first, maybe it was the biggest one, or maybe it was the one to just by accident start laying eggs first.

For example, forensic entomologist Gail Anderson of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby British Columbia, helped solve a poaching case by examining fresh blowfly eggs laid on twin bear cubs that had been shot and gutted for their gallbladders, a prized ingredient in some Asian medicines.

By watching the eggs until they hatched, she could pinpoint the time they had been laid — on an evening when two suspects had been seen near where the bears» bodies had been dumped.

For instance, the long - beaked echidna, a spiny, egg - laying mammal, is known from only a single specimen collected in 1961 by a Dutch researcher in Indonesia's Papua Province.

After spending a relatively leisurely winter and early spring luxuriating in warm tropical climates, they migrate north for a brief but highly eventful summer in North America, during which they must complete three energetically demanding and time - consuming tasks: (1) they must build nests, lay eggs, and provide for their offspring until the young reach independence, (2) they must completely replace all the feathers in their plumage as part of the annual molt, and (3) they must prepare for the fall southward migration by eating prodigiously and storing the body fat that will fuel their long - distance flights.

Egg - laying behavior in Aplysia is mediated by a set of peptides, including egg - laying hormone (ELH), which are released by a cluster of identified neurons, the bag celEgg - laying behavior in Aplysia is mediated by a set of peptides, including egg - laying hormone (ELH), which are released by a cluster of identified neurons, the bag celegg - laying hormone (ELH), which are released by a cluster of identified neurons, the bag cells.

The tracks are represented by solid lines, using a color code that indicates time (purple to white: from the blastoderm stage to the end point of the reconstruction at 5 h after egg laying).

The citrus fruit is an ideal oviposition substrate for the flies because the parasitoid wasp Leptopilina boulardii, which lays its eggs inside Drosophila larvae, is repelled by the odour of citrus.