Sentences with phrase «number of eggs hatched»

As a result, conditions were fantastic for frog eggs: About three times the normal number of eggs hatched and released tadpoles that grew into frogs.

If the number of eggs hatching at La Escobilla plummets, the number of females that arrive each year to lay should follow suit a few years later.

Not exact matches

But what we don't see are all the failures: the countless numbers of creatures that died in the egg or in the womb, or hatched or were born with terrible defects, or fell victim to predators or disease because of some weakness.

As the eggs hatch, she will try to determine the effect of their parents» synchronized singing — whether truly harmonious matings produce unexpected benefits, such as offspring that have a longer life span or that lay an increased number of eggs.

When Warkentin tweaked the recordings and generated vibrations using unrelated sounds, she found that the more snake - like patterns caused a greater number of eggs to hatch early and swim to safety as compared to rainlike recordings.

The king used his secret power each breeding season to guarantee that exactly the right number of eggs would hatch as males and exactly the right number as females.

To make matters worse, the Army had found a number of dinosaur eggs during a dig and had stashed them at the Nevada facility... and the radiation has caused them to hatch, with a pack of hungry velociraptors patrolling the area as a result.

Our focus is on a family of dinosaurs that numbers five after excited parents watch their three eggs hatch within seconds of each other.

While in the past popular flea control strategies targeted the environment, today we are fortunate to have a number of products aimed at preventing the egg from hatching or killing the adult.

The number of eggs which successfully hatch is relatively low due to terrestrial predators such as monitor lizards which will dig up the eggs for food.

NestWatch is a nationwide monitoring program designed to track status and trends in the reproductive biology of birds, including when nesting occurs, number of eggs laid, how many eggs hatch, and how many hatchlings survive.

As they monitored the crows» nests, they counted the number of eggs, the number that hatched and the number of chicks that fledged and left the nest.