Sentences with phrase «tadpoles hatching»

Their rediscovery of it has led to tadpoles hatching in captivity

Eggs are laid, tadpoles hatch and transform into froglets, which eat and grow as much as they can, and then everybody descends into the earth once more to wait another 10 months.

Not exact matches

Wood frog tadpoles aren't the only ones with a taste for blood — tadpoles of New Mexico spadefoot toads eat plants when they first hatch, but sometimes transform into voracious predators.

At Pfennig's invitation, I had arrived at the American Museum of Natural History's Southwestern Research Station in mid-July — just after the early summer monsoons had turned cattle wallows into nursery ponds and newly hatched tadpoles into cannibals.

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.

The problem, however, is that if they hatch early the tadpoles are less well developed, and are more vulnerable to attack from shrimps and fish.

Back in Boston, Warkentin's team will look at the inner ear of each tadpole to confirm that the structures were fully developed when they hatched.

And, at least at first, they treat their young alike: After the female deposits her eggs on a leaf, the male fertilizes them, and, when the eggs hatch, he coaxes each tadpole onto his back and ferries it to a nearby pool.

Once the broods hatch, the males head back to the woods and leave the tadpoles to fend for themselves.

In this process, the eggs incubate on land before the frogs hatch as miniature adults, skipping the tadpole stage completely.