Sentences with phrase «for skinks»

School for Skinks: Can Conditioned Taste Aversion Enable Bluetongue Lizards (Tiliqua scincoides) to Avoid Toxic Cane Toads (Rhinella marina) as Prey?

At low altitudes, females born early under warm conditions have more time to grow large and produce offspring, so it is advantageous for these skinks» gender to be temperature - sensitive.

In two lab experiments, the researchers compared the hatching dates for skink eggs exposed to vibrations with those of eggs that weren't shaken.

That's a good thing for the skink, because lizards can drop their tails when in danger and regrow them later.

Not exact matches

The team captured pregnant skinks from each clan and allowed half of each group to lie in the sun for 10 hours per day, while the others were restricted to 4 hours.

If a bird goes in for the kill but underestimates a skink's speed, it will come up with nothing but a mouthful of disembodied tail — and the skink will live another day.

Ms Pintor, along with supervisors Professor Lin Schwarzkopf and Professor Andrew Krockenberger from the Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change, used three groups of Australian skinks for their analysis.

Luckily for young Richard Sloan, Skink is also available for other services, like helping find Richard's missing cousin.

Having more options for your customers, especially options that are as lovely, amenable and intrinsically interesting as a blue - tongued skink, can't hurt.

Internship at the Little Rock, Arkansas Zoo where she assisted in developing and delivering conservation awareness shows, and provided behavioral training and enrichment for over 40 animals, ranging from a Bald Eagle to a baby Groundhog, to a Blue - Tongued Skink.

Also recommended for Blue - Tongued Skinks and BoxTurtles.

Well - established tea - tree heathlands are important to the Rufous Bristlebird, while wetland areas provide food and nesting sites for the Australasian Bittern, Lewins Rail and Swamp Skink.

Cullen's a town pretty much in the top right - hand corner of Scotland, and skink, well that's a Scottish word originally for a shin of beef but later generalized to mean a soup.

Cullen's a town pretty much in the top right - hand corner of Scotland, and skink, well that's a Scottish word originally for a shin of beef but later generalized to mean a... [more]

I felt a little as dear M. Jourdain must have felt when he learned he'd been speaking prose all his life, for I've had many a chowder in my time that's come within a ace of skink, had I but known it.

We had a resident skink in our toilet for about a week.