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Sentence Examples I hope their nesting was successful and that they raised a healthy brood of chicks. On the sandy floor a gold spectacled jawfish, affectionately known as Harry, cradled a brood of eggs in his open mouth. Honey bees occasionally invade homes and establish a colony, building combs of wax containing honey and pollen, and brood in wall spaces. Yes, this week's retro Mercury can be aggravating and infuriating, so fume and brood if you want to. Red squirrels have one brood of young each year and two or three kittens are produced. These samples were collected from different queenless colonies, the worker brood emerging being laid by workers. The male feeds the female on the nest and helps her brood the young when they first hatch. Within three days of birth a brood of young may have been led a distance of almost a mile. His 170 publications dealt mainly with the taxonomy, zoogeography, and evolution of birds, but also with territory theory and brood parasitism. Another parenting pattern that might lead to brood parasitism is cooperative breeding, seen in cuckoos such as Anis and the Guira Cuckoo. Beef cows, brood ewes, and most other ruminants do not require consistent quality forage, and longer grazing periods should suffice. Scotty writes the lyrics, and runs half-formed songs past his brood, before sending them to Nick to musicalise. Somewhere east of the Mojave Desert my mother began to urge her brood to pay attention to the landscape. The place is populated by endearing eccentrics who eat seal-flipper pie and brood darkly on the sea's malign nature. They bought a lot of very high-priced stallions and brood mares and so on from all around the world. With two stallions and 20 brood mares, the Ford's are expecting 16 foals this season. There she would observe working-class women, scraping by to clothe their brood. During the short hours of darkness the parents remain with small chicks making a scrape to brood them. In 1983 and 1984, the ability of whole broods to thermoregulate was tested as a function of brood size, nest environment, and brood age. Bark thickness imparts some level of insulation on host tree phloem and influences bark beetle brood survival during cold periods. Show More Sentences For species like the barn owl, which can produce a second brood, this will almost certainly prove advantageous. Think about the concentric pattern of honey, pollen, and brood that arises on the honey combs of a beehive. I happened to like it, but I'm in disagreement with the rest of the brood of mockers with whom I saw it. We begin in a dark, moody place, and proceed to brood for three-quarters of an hour. Mrs. Ellis is the traditional mother hen, always fussing over her little brood. In contrast, effects of brood size on cooling dynamics are much smaller in species whose nestlings sit alongside each other. They then posed for the cameras in the courtroom, bouncing their brood of young sons on their knees and kissing their wives at length. In one case, a female Steller's eider was killed by a snowy owl, after which her ducklings were adopted into a nearby brood. All dead nestlings found within or outside the nest box were subtracted from brood size at day 13 to determine the actual number fledged. Once all of the eggs have hatched, both parents provision the brood and roost outside of the nest box at night. We recorded the transport of brood, workers, and the queen to the new nest on videotape. In birds, the competitive ability of chicks within a brood is strongly influenced by their relative size and developmental stage. The first nest containing a brood of tiny young was found in a slight depression in the ground beneath birches. One family had raised a brood of chicks in mid-July, and they had already grown quite a bit by this time. The male usually remains near the nest until incubation begins, and rarely stays with the brood once they hatch. In six instances females started with a second clutch only about 1 week after chicks from the first brood had left the nest. He incubates the eggs for around 23 days and tends the brood after they hatch. After the grandmother and her brood got off, a little fellow was dropped at a house. This allows me to strike the work-family balance that I have chosen for myself and my little brood. In honeybees, worker policing via egg eating enforces functional worker sterility in colonies with a queen and brood. Show More Sentences Efficient concurrent functioning of both the guard and brood stealers is necessary to complete the task of stealing brood. Using this form of nest chamber enabled us to count the number of workers and brood in each subcolony without disturbing the nest. Females build the nest, incubate eggs, and brood nestlings, but both sexes choose the nest site and feed offspring. A few sea urchins brood their eggs in special pouches, but most provide no parental care. Larger species of marine invertebrates that brood their young have evolved special ventilation mechanisms. Cichlids follow a typical developmental pattern but some species brood the eggs in the mouth while developing. Crinoids are gonochoric and brood their young until the embryo develops into a doliolarian larva or a fully formed juvenile crinoid. For the second successive year Driffield-based hunter breeders Michael and Jeryl Grubb landed the county championship for home-bred brood mares. You have to consider from whence come your brood stock, the animals you're actually working with. Those fish are used as brood fish in the state's restocking program and then released into the wild. She has not been ridden in over 4 years as her previous owners used her as a brood mare. And we know the importance of selecting a brood mare for an heir to the throne. Mr Norquoy hopes to acquire new brood stock from among the 24,000 pigeons on display. Like Strouf, wheat and barley are his largest sources of income, with a small herd of 60 brood cows and hay encompassing over 2,000 acres. I'm not at all attracted to Colin Firth, but as Mr Darcy, wahay, the man could brood and simper all he liked around me! But then a new male and female California quail strolled into the yard with a recently hatched brood of five chicks. In the present study we experimentally reduced brood size in the Panamanian acara, Aequidens coeruleopunctatus. Clark said biologists will do another steelhead count this week, which may determine if there are enough wild fish in the river to allow the hatchery to catch brood stock. Soon after Jerry disappeared, she shook the red dust of south Georgia from her shoes, gathered her brood about her and climbed aboard a Jim Crow train. Sivan had to nearly jog to keep up with the contingent of brood warriors. Show More Sentences At the time when he married Sonia, she was not only ravishing but well provided for, and El Duende could buy more land and notably improve his stock of brood mares. I don't have an escrow account for taxes because my taxes are ruinously expensive, and I'd prefer to park the money someplace where it can produce a small brood of sawbucks. Whilst the warm limbec draws Salubrious waters from the nocent brood. An uncle and his family resided in another house and his aunt and her brood in a third. The photographs tell us that why we should brood over the murderous innocence of some water bodies when we have plenty of untrodden spots around us. The new trail is slated for February, which happens to be around the time the eagles will likely be starting another brood. Many friends knew the tale of her remarkable childhood spent on the cattle stations, with her father and his motherless brood of five young children. It seems clear that all offspring should benefit when a parent produces an alarm signal or intercepts a predator and prevents it from reaching the brood. People lose their nerve in the middle of a sentence and walk off muttering, they sit and brood by themselves, and best yet, all the time, people are getting stupid drunk. Like their seahorse relatives, male sea dragons brood the eggs. She is one of a brood of eight, the majority of whom were female. A partridge, indeed, with a brood of ten behind her, ran forward threateningly, but soon repented of her fierceness, and clucked to her young ones not to be afraid. She also finds homes for elderly brood dogs from farms in Florida. Because obligate siblicide typically occurs shortly after the second chick hatches, brood size does not vary for the majority of the nestling period. I have plans to use her as a brood mare if I can get her to heal. Growers are very dependent on the skill of the apiarists, who bring along hives full of bees just at the stage when they have need of lots of pollen to feed their brood. Many cichlids brood the eggs in the mouth and, although rare, the free-swimming young of some species also rush into the parent's mouth for protection. Parents appear to brood newly hatched chicks for only a few days. Gravid females are immediately distinguishable by the developing ootheca contained in an expanded brood sac. Even the beneficient rainfall had failed to attract animal life to the basaltic waste, and the genius of silence seemed to brood over all. Show More Sentences A member of the Royal Society, in the field of zoology he was the first person to describe the brood parasitism of the cuckoo. Gannets lack brood patches and they use their webbed feet to warm the eggs. The incubating parent holds the egg against its brood patch with its wings. Many species brood developing larvae in the bursae, effectively giving birth to live young. In moon jellies, the eggs lodge in pits on the oral arms, which form a temporary brood chamber for the developing planula larvae. Fertilization is generally external, but platyctenids use internal fertilization and keep the eggs in brood chambers until they hatch. Summer floods can destroy nests or make fishing difficult, resulting in starvation of the brood. In turn, the house sparrow has once been recorded as a brood parasite of the American cliff swallow. The female develops a brood patch of bare skin and plays the main part in incubating the eggs. The majority of brood care is provided by the male, as the female deserts the brood and often leaves the breeding area. Which is a question that French nationalists continue to brood about. Epizootic infestations by nemertean brood parasites on commercially important crustaceans. Impact of brood parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbirds on Red-winged Blackbird reproductive success. This will be her sole brood of hatchlings, and she regurgitates 41 percent of her body mass to feed her spiderlings. Take three frames of brood and nurse bees and two frames of honey, and put them in another deep super or nucleons box. A male-biased brood free of endosymbiotes was found in the SO population. The way in which this arrhenogeny occurs is as yet unclear. Owner Paula Williamson was worried Lhasa Apso Fi Fi might not cope with her huge brood, but she manages to feed them all. Having grown up in a brood of six children and now quickly expanding her own, Kourtney knows the importance of finding the right paediatrician. Elle Seule compiled a fine record, her brood including Irish 1,000 Guineas victress Mehthaaf and July Cup hero Elnadim, and her branch of the family has continued to thrive. Effect of light intensity on brood production of livebearers Gambusia spp. Show More Sentences Aggression between brood-rearing female Red-breasted Mergansers was reported in Denmark but there was no indication these behaviors resulted in brood movements. Crab spiders Misumena vatia provide a particularly favorable opportunity to investigate the relative advantages of guarding young and producing a second brood. After settling down with their brood, the swans were forced to confront and fend off Canadian geese that got a little too close for the comfort of the cygnets. Responses of F1 and backcross generations to disease-killed brood. We emphasize that all the females that we dissected contained a single brood of developing embryos, indicating the lack of superfetation in this species. Conte had arrived a week early despite spending his summer with Italy at the Euros. Exhausted, he went home during the international break to see his family and brood. I was nice, however, to find a brood of Redstart making use of a nest box after they had failed in their last spot in a supposedly dry stone wall. Most decapods carry the eggs attached to the pleopods, while peracarids, notostracans, anostracans, and many isopods form a brood pouch from the carapace and thoracic limbs. In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs. The larvae of many lycaenid butterflies interact with ants in relationships ranging from brood parasitism in ant colonies to mutualism in which both species benefit. Examples from Classical Literature Now and then came the moaning of Mrs. Zamboni, who was in her cabin with her brood of children. It feeds on bedstraw, in June and July, and a second brood occurs in September. A brood of the goosander or red merganser, the young not yet able to fly, were the occasion of some spirited rowing. All the political brood of grafters and hypocrites have run away with it, and with us as well. But the disadvantage of bee-bread and brood in the boxes will not be made up by straight combs. One day speckle, the big hen, made a great fuss because her brood of ducklings went into the water. Seven days after the first brood were awing, I found the new eggs in the nest. The autumnal brood of females has appeared, and this is their marriage day. In such a life there is no place for untruthfulness or any member of its impish brood. The young brood came into the world at the usual period, but one only continued with her stepdame. Both sexes brood and the exchange of partners resembles that described for the incubation period. Yes, he would brood upon it like a sage hen, until he had hatched mischief. The falconer of war had unhooded his new brood of hawks and they mounted up, free of bells and jesses. She fussed around like any other old hen who had in charge a brood of ducks. Off to her nest goes the kingfisher, bearing to her brood the struggling sixth. How often would I have gathered you together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her winge, and ye would not? It is well to be prepared for it, but it is ill to brood over a fancied future of evil. And were you not, for your audacity, left to brood ten days and nights in gaol? The observation of the destruction of the brood by the maskinonge is worth recording. Alas, her vicious brood have turned on her and cast her ribbons in the mire! Show More Sentences At the same moment that I startled this brood out of the rushes a moorhen swam slowly out, accompanied by her mate. The brood sows are placed in separate pens at farrowing time and watched carefully when giving birth to the pigs. A brood mare requires plenty of exercise at a slow pace and may work, except between shafts or on a road, till the day of foaling. If we continue to unshell the kernel, we find, below this mineral layer, a last silken tunic that forms a globe around the brood. Because the stars pointed that the end was nearing, the black brood came behind again, and followed, noising. The barn swallow had guided her last brood through the hayloft window, without having it closed upon her as she had feared. Many also enter the formicary, and begin to carry off the young brood that are left in it. In this hollow tree the wood duck reared her brood, and slid away each day to forage in yonder fen. Both sexes sit on the eggs, but only the female truly incubates because the male lacks a brood patch. His intention was to attack the islands of the caribbees, and destroy that mischievous brood. The patronne is a motherly creature with half a dozen of her own brood. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. Women were like she wolves for greed when they had a brood of whelps. Verville has sworn that there shall be one less of the Italian brood. A SOUTH Liverpool park has become home to a brood of cygnets and two swans. She coaxes me to rush after her, so as to wean me away from her brood. Beth ate no more, but crept away to sit in her shadowy corner and brood over the delight to come, till the others were ready. It was like the stillness and the death that brood over the Dead Sea. He did not so much brood as rage inwardly in a dull, dispirited way. And feral pigs, which frequently root up the trail, can be temperamental, especially if you get between a sow and her brood. Show More Sentences And there springs Radicofani, the eagle's eyrie of a brigand brood. The schooners rocked and dipped at a safe distance, like mother ducks watching their brood, while the dories behaved like mannerless ducklings. When he went over th' wall again th' rest of th' brood was gone an' he was lonely an' he come back to me. He was obliged to sit close to it, and brood over it, before he could extract the least sensation of warmth from such a handful of fuel. A previous winner of Anglesey's Section B title, as a brood mare, she is unlikely to return to competition. The final qualifier is KENTFORD GREY LADY, but she's running to boost her brood mare credentials against Quevaga so we need to find two more. Early in the morning and late at night he was to be seen half out of window, administering to the varied wants of his callow brood. A mother does not have to learn to love her helpless, squirming brood. Next year that lodging was taken by a starling, who reared a brood there. She ruled her brood with the utmost coolness and strictness. Enter General Titus and his sons, dragging their hooded, vanquished enemies, Goth queen Tamora and her own brood. Not e'en the tigress of the wild,Thus tears her fellow's brood. John Corker, 71, has kept bantams for 10 years and has around 30 birds with a number of cockerels in his brood. One would think, Sandy, that you were a mother hen with a brood of chicks! She would be with them like a mother hen with a brood of ducks. And they did not dare hide because of that ogreish creature's brood. March would not leave Beth's side, but rested in the big chair, waking often to look at, touch, and brood over her child, like a miser over some recovered treasure. I brood too much over my own small affairs, and need stirring up, so as I can be spared this winter, I'd like to hop a little way and try my wings. And in this same last or shoe, that old woman of the nursery tale, with the swarming brood, might very comfortably be lodged, she and all her progeny. From the ground-floor of this house came a noise, or rather a confusion of voices, like the chirping of young birds when the brood is just hatched under the down. Show More Sentences The vision of her little brood looking fresh and dainty and new for once in their lives excited her and made her restless and wakeful with anticipation. Interspecific brood parasitism, a form of social parasitism, is a behavior in which the female of one species deposits her eggs in the nest of another species. Find more words! 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