Sentences with phrase «tadpoles in»

In Beijing earlier this summer for a Future Earth science planning session, I wandered over to a «fitness park» that, despite being ringed by soaring residential towers, was a humane haven for elderly dancers, couples pushing strollers and children poking at tadpoles in small artificial ponds.

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One of the major complications in understanding cane toads and their impact is the toad's complicated life - history — including eggs and tadpoles in the water as well as larger toads hopping around on dry land.

Cane toads produce many more eggs in a clutch than do any of the native frogs, and so a single clutch can result in many thousands of small black tadpoles in a pond.

Researchers observe tadpoles in the Rensselaer Aquatic Laboratory.

The team studied the phenomenon by placing tadpoles in tanks with concentrations of sodium chloride similar to those of waterways near roads treated with road salt.

To do this, they bathed the tadpoles in a drug.

However, when forced to express the eye field transcription factor (EFTF) genes, the cells differentiate into all seven retinal cell classes and eventually organize themselves into a functioning eye that can detect light and guide tadpoles in a vision - based behavior.

Some frogs carry eggs in pouches on their back, brood tadpoles in their vocal sac or mouth, or transport tadpoles in pits on their back.

The new species seems to prefer to give birth to tadpoles in small pools or seeps located away from streams, possibly to avoid the heftier fanged frogs hanging out around the stream.

Headline killed tadpoles in the lab at doses used on crops, according to Belden's 2010 study.

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

He found that tadpoles in snake - infested ponds have leaner bodies and stronger tails.

Tadpoles in ponds without snakes have shorter tails and rounder bodies.

Wilson caught the study's 75 wild tadpoles in pools on the edge of a lake near Berlin.

Over a three - day period, I watched and captured tadpoles in bodies of water that ranged from tire - carved puddles to bovine swimmin» holes of the double - wide Olympic variety.

But when Jefferson kept the tadpoles in dense groups, he found that they readily ate their ground - up compatriots.

In some species of frogs, the males carry tadpoles in their mouths until they are able to survive independently.

Not exact matches

We transform from tadpoles to apes in six weeks.

It is a relatively minor matter whether God infused the transcendent capacity into a freshly made creature or an upwardly mobile hominid that had evolved through various transformations, from an amoeba to a tadpole to an assortment of amphibians and mammals until, as in the familiar diagrams and animations, it looks more or less like Carl Sagan.

Roger Shinn, who taught ethics for many years at Union Theological Seminary in New York, offers a clearly written essay, «Between Eden and Babel,» in which he explores in brief compass many of the moral issues involved as well as some of the first ethical discussions of cloning more than thirty years ago after tadpoles had been cloned.

While some of the metamorphoses that DO occur in nature, eg caterpillar into butterfly or tadpole into frog, are as spectacular or arguably even more spectacular than your fish to frog morph, the simple fact is that evolution doesn't happen to individual organisms.

A blob of tissue or tadpole like embryo is not a baby, any more than that sprouted carrot seed in the garden is a vegetable.

We fish a little bit, look for tadpoles, play in the bunkers and build sand castles.

Then that egg grows into a little tadpole, and transforms in your mate's belly into a tiny little baby that gets a heartbeat, grows and then starts to kick.

And we were in disbelief at the number of tadpoles we saw in a vernal pool at Moose Hill.

Jennifer Rizzo shares a post on how they set up a tadpole habitat in their backyard.

The male and female pair in a lifelong monogamous relationship, and both parents share extended tadpole - rearing responsibilities in a quiet subdivision away from the perils of the Peruvian rainforest floor.

In fact, Diapers by Chris and Tadpole Jones Diaper Supply pretty much exclusively do custom cloth diapers in lieu of setting up a store with weekly stockingIn fact, Diapers by Chris and Tadpole Jones Diaper Supply pretty much exclusively do custom cloth diapers in lieu of setting up a store with weekly stockingin lieu of setting up a store with weekly stockings.

I began by describing how mommies have a teeny, tiny egg in their bellies and daddies have a tadpole called sperm, and when they get together, a baby is created instantly.

At this time, the embryo begins to lengthen and take on the appearance of a tadpole thanks, in part, to the development of the all - important neural tube that runs from the top to the bottom of the embryo.

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.

Either observe animals in your area like frogs / tadpoles, or let your children keep silkworms and learn about their lifecycles.

In this pic, Tadpole Jones is modeling a custom diaper made by Harp Diapers, a Canadian WAHM shop.

Babies and toddlers are always in need of more snapsuits and tees, so designs from Trendy Tadpole make a fashionable and practical gift.

Although the first cloned animal - a tadpole - was created in 1952, the most publicly significant event in the history of cloning was the creation of Dolly the Sheep in 1996 at the Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh.

One idea is that cannibalism might be the ideal diet to help tadpoles grow rapidly, because it supplies exactly the mix of nutrients found in their bodies.

«Tadpoles are like water balloons; if you puncture their body cavities, they're dead,» says Dale Jefferson of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.

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.

I stood quietly and watched as hundreds of conspicuously larger tadpoles crisscrossed the pond, making frequent excursions from the deeper water toward the shore in a relentless search for prey.

By this time, I had already begun to see distinct patterns of behavior in the spadefoot tadpoles that motored hyperactively just below the water's surface.

In the experiment, amphibians laid eggs in all of the treatments, but larval amphibians (tadpoles) were only found in tanks without mosquitofisIn the experiment, amphibians laid eggs in all of the treatments, but larval amphibians (tadpoles) were only found in tanks without mosquitofisin all of the treatments, but larval amphibians (tadpoles) were only found in tanks without mosquitofisin tanks without mosquitofish.

In response to this particular environmental selection pressure, what evolved was a means by which some of the tadpoles can mature in about two - thirds of the timIn response to this particular environmental selection pressure, what evolved was a means by which some of the tadpoles can mature in about two - thirds of the timin about two - thirds of the time.

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

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.

In close encounters of the bitey kind, cannibal tadpoles release siblings unharmed and consume non-relatives.

So with frogs, for instance, she cut and pasted genes in experiments that sometimes led to the development of two - headed (or no - headed) tadpoles.

The Tadpole galaxy (top left) sports a long tail of stars and gas pulled out by the gravity of a galactic interloper, visible as a small blue clump in the upper part of the Tadpole's disk.

The researchers, who release their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, did not see a similar reduction in trematode infections in the presence of larval damselflies, which are intraguild predators, meaning they attacked and killed not only the parasites but also the tadpole hosts.