Turtle hatchlings normally emerge in the evening hours only and move towards the sea under the cover of darkness. |
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See how a mother alligator protects her newborn hatchlings in her otherwise deadly jaws, and learn what dangers the babies face in the wild. |
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The hatchlings have a beak with a raptorial hook that they use to stab host nestlings. |
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So the kiskadees are able to incubate from two to five eggs and feed the hatchlings in comparative safety. |
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The hatchlings normally emerge after a period of about 45-55 days depending upon the ambient sand temperature and climatic conditions. |
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Other containers house giant cockroaches and itty-bitty arachnid hatchlings, a few months old and smaller than a pinky nail. |
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The study team says such live-born offspring are armed with teeth similar to those of the egg hatchlings. |
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Seven farms operate in Australia's Northern Territory, raising saltwater crocodiles from hatchlings and selling their skin and meat. |
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Dispersal of bagworms depends on the hatchlings getting out on a twig and letting out a long strand of silk. |
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The eggs and hatchlings of the chambered nautilus are the largest of all cephalopods. |
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About a week later, the hatchlings usually follow their mothers northwards. |
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On the inside walls and floor, make sure to avoid wood treated with stains or chemicals that could harm hatchlings. |
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They lay their eggs in July and feed their new hatchlings fresh nuts beginning in August. |
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Fire ants feed on almost any plant or animal material, including vulnerable reptile and ground-bird hatchlings. |
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Green Sea Turtles as hatchlings weigh about an ounce and have a carapace length of 2 inches. |
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The presence of remnant yolk sacs was a good indication that these were indeed hatchlings emerging from their nests. |
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When the babies hatch, they are the size of a grain of rice. New hatchlings are planktonic for six to nine weeks. |
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To protect eggs and hatchlings from predators, volunteers and staff search for nests and collect eggs for incubation. |
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When turtle hatchlings emerge at night from their eggs and head for the ocean, lights from hotels and other sources can lead them off course. |
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Predators of eggs and hatchlings include small mammals, birds, and other reptiles. |
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Large-yolked eggs carry more lipid energy and may result in larger hatchlings or hatchlings with larger residual yolk reserves. |
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Eggs and hatchlings are predated by members of every class of vertebrates and numerous invertebrates. |
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There are many obstacles for turtle hatchlings, such as crabs, birds and many other predators in the ocean. |
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It has also been estimated that feral dogs predate nearly 70 per cent of the eggs and hatchlings of the sea turtles in these islands. |
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The clutch of one mother failed to produce hatchlings, thus yielding a data set of 22 viable clutches. |
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More than 30 eggs and 15 nests were rescued on Tuesday, and 35 hatchlings and juvenile birds were put on incubators. |
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Males in two species are known to guard egg clutches and carry hatchlings on their backs. |
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The female incubates her large clutch, and both parents tend the hatchlings. |
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The combination of the body proportions and poorly developed dentition suggest that the hatchlings may have required parental care. |
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Clutches of 8-15 eggs are deposited in nests that the females dig, and the hatchlings emerge between a year and 16 months later. |
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We checked all tagged nests daily to record laying dates of the eggs, clutch size, hatching dates, number of hatchlings, and number of fledglings. |
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For one precious moment the air filled with dragonfly hatchlings, their limp wings stiffening in the sun, performing aerobatic exercises before migrating down to the river. |
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Other research from the organisation highlights that millions of birds die each year because of cat predations, starvation and the weak and sickly condition of hatchlings. |
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Most studies of the locomotor performance of reptiles have focused on lizards, with chelonians, especially hatchlings and juveniles, being largely overlooked. |
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Two alternative explanations for these different recapture rates are that many hatchlings may have headed away from the drift fence or may have circumvented the drift fence. |
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Many wild hatchlings of these earlier returnees have fallen prey to Galapagos hawks, a natural predator that has coexisted with tortoises for eons. |
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Eggs and hatchlings are the most vulnerable, falling prey to insects, crustaceans, mollusks, small mammals, birds, other reptiles, and various fishes. |
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The plastrons of all hatchlings were photocopied for future identification and hatchling body masses and straight-line carapace lengths were recorded. |
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Members of all vertebrate classes predate eggs and hatchlings. |
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Increased illumination in the night too would disorient turtles and hatchlings and prevent them from finding their way to the sea after they hatch. |
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A few populations practice polyandry, although this does not seem to benefit hatchlings. |
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The hatchlings remain buried for days until they all emerge together at night. |
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At around 50 to 70 days, the eggs hatch during the night, and the hatchlings instinctively head directly into the water. |
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Virtually all hatchlings manifested mandibular cusps, eyebars and reddish plastrons. |
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This will be her sole brood of hatchlings, and she regurgitates 41 percent of her body mass to feed her spiderlings. |
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Smooth newts are generalist carnivores with a broad diet including invertebrates, crustaceans, and the eggs and hatchlings of frogs and fish. |
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Newly emerged hatchlings are carnivorous, pelagic organisms, part of the open ocean mininekton. |
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Typically, the male defends the hatchlings and teaches them to feed, although males and females cooperate in rearing chicks. |
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In precocial birds and crocodiles, however, hatchlings have pelvises already formed into bone. |
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The aversion to yellow light, or xanthophobia, that loggerhead hatchlings show sets them apart from other sea turtle species. |
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Previously, researchers had discovered a fossilized nest that included almost three dozen psittacosaur hatchlings, possibly from several mothers. |
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Juveniles and new hatchlings have significantly more predators, including crabs, small marine mammals and shorebirds. |
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She would then introduce her hatchlings to the water and even feed them. |
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One function of xanthophobia in loggerhead hatchlings may be to reduce the attraction of light sources with a substantial participation of long-wavelength light. |
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Dennis and I saw turkey and deer tracks on the sand bars, a hen wood duck with hatchlings, numerous black-belly whistling ducks in the tree cavities. |
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Two of the hatchlings are gentoo, four Adelie, and two rockhopper. |
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Female hatchlings, who are useless to foie gras producers, may be drowned in scalding water, suffocated in plastic bags or shredded alive in macerators. |
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The eggs are buoyant and the hatchlings feed on zooplankton. |
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The greater crested tern will also occasionally catch unusual vertebrate species such as agamid lizards and green sea turtle hatchlings, and follows trawlers for discards. |
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The female then gathers the hatchlings in her mouth and transports them to the water, where they remain in a group for several months, protected by the female. |
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