Sentences with phrase «other tadpoles»

They were less likely to school and swim along with other tadpoles (a tadpole proxy for socialization, which is impaired in autism); they weren't as good at avoiding contact with animated images projected on to the bottom of their petri dishes; they didn't habituate to startling noises (another analog to autism in people); and induced seizures were more frequent and shorter than in normal tadpoles.

In the lab, though, apparently all bets are off if the cannibals are deprived of food and then placed in a tank with other tadpoles.

Not exact matches

I'm also enjoying cloth diapers made by several WAHMs as of late: Diapers by Chris, Ella Bella Bum, and Tadpole Jones Diaper Supply (among others).

Great toddler activities at the creek include wading in the water, picking up rocks and other things in the creek, watching tadpoles and other small fish, looking for newts and lizards, throwing rocks into the water.

Sometimes we just go to collect pine cones for a winter fire, other times we go to a stream to look for tadpoles or often we just spend time in our own garden encouraging wildlife to visit and watching them when they do.

That suggests the tadpoles were competing with each other, trying to reach adulthood first.

The research team found that when it increased levels of E-NTPDase2 in tadpole embryos that consisted of only eight cells, they could cause parts of the eye to form not only on the heads of the amphibians, but also in tissues in other parts of their bodies, including their tails.

Beasley said that various species of trematodes penetrate tadpoles, sometimes killing them and at other times weakening them with tissue damage, kidney failure, or severe limb deformities when the tadpoles develop into frogs.

Wood frog tadpoles often attack and eat each other, even though tadpole flesh isn't very nutritious.

Others include egg to froglet, egg brooding, and tadpoles in the mother's stomach

«It suggests that tadpoles and other pond organisms are made up of human waste,» said Meredith Holgerson, a research fellow at Portland State who conducted the research at 18 Connecticut ponds when she was a Yale Ph.D. student.

To test this, Rick Relyea, a biologist at the University of Pittsburg in Pennsylvania, simulated a pond ecosystem by filling 1000 - liter tanks with well water, plankton, various tadpole species, and other organisms at the same densities found in nature.

There are two likely ways this could happen: either by poisoning the other animals (if they try to eat toad eggs or tadpoles); or by competing with them for food.

Michael is undoubtedly THE expert on cane toad tadpoles and especially, their effects on native tadpoles and other kinds of animals that encounter them.

In terms of collateral damage, tadpole pheromones don't affect native frogs (or any other native animals, so far as we know).

Michael was the person who discovered that a chemical in toad eggs attracts cannibalistic toad tadpoles - and the person who ended up identifying the exact nature of that chemical (in collaboration with other members of TEAM BUFO, especially Professor Rob Capon from the University of Queensland).

Coordinated with other items in the Tadpoles Ruffle Satin Window Treatments collection (sold separately)

John Ritter (Sling Blade, Tadpole) stars as Roy Knables, a mediocre plumbing supplies salesman by day, a couch potato at all other times.

They are purchased from other shops or mail order houses as tadpoles so that kids can have the experience of seeing the transformation process.

I find them variable as feeders; some eat feeder fish readily, and others get very picky, wanting tadpoles, crickets or even mice — often teaching us great lessons in patience as we struggle to figure out exactly what it is that they desire.

Toughie, living alone in recent years in a special habitat at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, was one of several dozen Rabbs» frogs and tadpoles captured in Panama in 2005 and brought to Atlanta by biologists practicing the emerging art of «captive conservation» — trying to safeguard this (and other) tropical frog species ahead of the fungal holocaust.