Sentences with phrase «out of their burrows in»

They come out of their burrows in the spring for about eight weeks to feed and lay eggs, and again in the fall to feed and breed.

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«He was sitting and eating a sandwich, and this coconut crab came right out its burrow in the middle of the daytime when... a red - footed booby... landed outside of its burrow,» Laidre says.

In the Pinelands, female pine snakes dig out their own burrows over the course of several days, using a specialized scale on their noses to scoop out sand — so it's not too hard for a careful observer to catch some females in the act of digging prior to laying eggIn the Pinelands, female pine snakes dig out their own burrows over the course of several days, using a specialized scale on their noses to scoop out sand — so it's not too hard for a careful observer to catch some females in the act of digging prior to laying eggin the act of digging prior to laying eggs.

A snake has been caught on film pushing grass out of the way near a ground squirrel burrow as if in preparation for an attack on its prey

Mangrove rivulus, which live in noxious crab burrow habitats, are about 2 - 3 cm long as adults and have a number of unusual adaptations to allow them to live out of water.

She and colleagues collected DNA from more than 180 of the animals — many nabbed with the help of «kiwi dogs» that can sniff out birds hidden in their burrows — living in four different refuges.

The tour is laid out in three themed, two - hour documentary film blocks, featuring Ice Call by Sam Favret, showing a surreal landscape inside glaciers, to the hilarious Owl Dance - Off Part II, the much - anticipated follow - up to wildlife photographer Megan Lorenz's award - winning Internet sensation that made stars of two burrowing owls.

If Phil sees his shadow when he comes out of his burrow, we're in for six more weeks of winter weather.

They can ask if the customer has ever bought a bag of hay for their rats, and point out that they just love to burrow and play in it.

Going in and out of their burrow or foraging for food is a big part of a house rabbits day and they are comfortable exploring narrow spaces.

For a $ 50 contribution you may symbolically «adopt»: an American Kestrel a Northern Harrier a White Tailed Kite a Burrowing Owl a Northern Saw Whet Owl Please enter they type of bird in the «Comments» field when you check - out.

Imagine yourself in 19th century Scotland, and take a look around at all the different rough - coated little terriers ferreting out vermin from burrows and dark corners, all of them informally called «Scottish Terriers» or «Scotch Terriers,» and you may wonder what the heck a Scottish Terrier really is.

Mange in dogs and cats is caused by a proliferation of mites that burrow in and out of the skin.

It was able to get in and out of burrows easily because of its small size.

Derived from the Latin word for Terra, many working terriers were selectively bred to hunt vermin, large rodents and foxes by «going to ground» in their underground burrows and dens and forcing them out of their habitats where the hunters awaited them.

Three in particular stand out to my mind: • The Spadefoots (Scaphiophus and Spea sp.): This is a complex of particularly attractive burrowing toads that are often desert species.

If he's in his burrow, you can gently coax him out with the sound of your voice.

I'd think they'd be branching out from traditional genres more and investing in giving players truly new experiences, to find new ways to stay relevant instead of burrowing deeper and deeper into known territory.»

«Harmonic Distortion» has worldwide environmental scope: marble clouds intricately patterned by wave formations; cyanotypes making apparent abstraction out of fifteen years of data showing that our cloud cover is reducing; a performance in which one woman is bound by another, Kinbakushi style, in state of the art fibre optic cable even as she tries to draw circles using the oldest of means — ochre pigment... So whether you wanted academic analysis, obsessive drawing burrowing into the psyche or the wide sweep of science and its consequent politics, you had them.

Along the walls of Oceanographer Canyon, fish dart in and out of colorful anemone gardens and sea creatures send up plumes of sand and mud as they burrow.