Sentences with phrase «long during their migration»

In six to seven months, these microscopic larvae grow to a foot long during their migration to the heart and lung arteries.

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SIXTH SENSE During European robins» long - range migrations, production of the protein Cry4 increases and that may facilitate the birds» sense of Earth's magnetic field.

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.

During embryonic development individual cells and cell clusters can move over relatively long distances, and cell migration is also essential for wound healing and many immunological processes in adult animals.

Roundworms, however, have the ability to go dormant during their liver - lung migration and form long - lived cysts in the dogs body tissues.

Who taught them where to go during migration, how to return to the same neighborhood or even the same tree after a long winter, what route to take, how to build a nest (with no hands), what materials to use, how to recognize intruders eggs, how to lure predators away from their young, how to use tools to break open hard foods or different tools to reach into crevices too deep for their bills, how to survive bitter cold winters, how to talk, etc... And don't ever tell me they don't feel emotion!

These small birds make their way though this area during a long winter migration from their... Read More

These small birds make their way though this area during a long winter migration from their arctic nesting sites.

At 45 feet long and 33 tons, these magnificent creatures can be seen off our coast between December and March during their epic annual migrations.

Colonialism, Capitalism, Socialism, contemporary slavery and migration were some of the themes running through the 56th Edition of La Biennale di Venezia, which opened not long after a period of several weeks during which more than 1,800 migrants — many of them African — drowned whilst attempting to flee across the Mediterranean to Europe from dictatorships, poverty or conflict in countries including; Libya, Syria, Somalia and Eritrea.