How To Use Hatchling In A Sentence
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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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But sometimes, just like that helpless hatchling struggling for survival, in order to truly help, we need to step away, let it go, and watch that birdling fly.
Layla Revis: Mrs. Fix It
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The challenge those sea turtle hatchlings face on their way out to the sargassum weed line and an uncertain future is, as I said before, unimaginable.
Rick Cleveland: The Sound and the Fury of Tiny Flippers
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No snipe today (alas) but lots of damselflies mating and ovipositing, some hatchling fish, and some (always too fast to ID) grassland sparrows.
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IOW, snakes don't give birth to mammals, even if an occasional hatchling has seriously deformed scales.
Crossroads
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Therefore, it is of ecological and conservational importance to monitor the hatchling sex ratios produced in nesting beach conservation programs.
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Hatchling painted turtles commonly overwinter within their natal nests and survive exposure to temperatures as low as - 12 [degrees] C by supercooling.
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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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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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Eggs and hatchlings are predated by members of every class of vertebrates and numerous invertebrates.
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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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Only female hummingbirds are involved in parental care; they must incubate eggs, brood young hatchlings, and feed the chicks as nestlings and fledglings.
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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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After cradling the hatchling in her fleece-gloved hands, Patterson measures the length of its bill, then carefully slips the chick into a mesh bag to weigh it.
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‘Peep, peep, peep,’ sing the little yellow hatchlings corralled by a pencil-line chicken wire fence.
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Turtle hatchlings normally emerge in the evening hours only and move towards the sea under the cover of darkness.
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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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Predators of eggs and hatchlings include small mammals, birds, and other reptiles.
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New hatchlings, which instinctively head toward the brightest spot on the horizon, confuse urban lights with the ocean's reflection of moonlight, starlight and bioluminescence in the water.
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While you're a hatchling and growing over the first five to 10 years, you're just being swept along the south Atlantic," said Matthew Witt, of the University of Exeter.
Secret voyages of leatherback turtles revealed using transmitters
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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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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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This hatchling is just one of hundreds of its kind that have been incubated and raised in captivity for release into North America's wetlands.
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Then, in the dark of the night he stole a dragon hatchling , and convinced Morzan, a weak-minded Rider, to join him in his practice of dark secrets and forbidden magic.
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Hatchlings were completely naked and their eyelids were fused.
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They lay their eggs in July and feed their new hatchlings fresh nuts beginning in August.
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In the story, set over 65 million years ago, an iguanodon hatchling named Aladar is separated from his family.
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Though I doubted Raziel would enjoy being seen as a fuzzy hatchling.
Raziel
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When this scene is shown on film the viewer is expected to take the side of the innocent turtle hatchling against the vicious crab or bird.
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Modern malleefowl show this to an extreme with no parental care at all actually even crocodiles and alligators care more about their hatchlings..., with hatchlings which are completely idependet from the very beginning, and it was probably not unsimilar in theropods, even if there are indications for some familiar behavior in some species.
Joy in the Farmyard
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The second turtle, a loggerhead turtle, was taken in by aquarium personnel when it was still a hatchling.
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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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Why are loon hatchlings in Wisconsin emerging deformed from their eggs?
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However, with the advent of miniaturized telemeters and thread-trailing methods, direct estimates of hatchling survival have been made.
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The mantis is a fresh hatchling, tiny and delicate as an ant.
The Song of The Dodo
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Hatchlings will feed on macroplankton, small snails, crustaceans and other invertebrates such as hydrozoans and jellies.
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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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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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Incidental observations made during the course of this investigation suggested that hatchling C. picta can survive supercooling to at least - 15 [degrees] C.
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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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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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Originally identified as a hatchling dinosaur, the fossils were recognized to include a snake by dinosaur paleontologist Jeff Wilson from the University of Michigan and Mohabey in 2001.
Scientific Blogging
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He was an executive at an important film company who, when faced with a featherless hatchling, felt his heart go soft for the first time in weeks, maybe even months.
Layla Revis: Mrs. Fix It
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The most difficult thing is to obtain different sized specimens to work with, because ideally you need material from hatchling to subadult to adult.
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One of the best known examples in vertebrates is the cooperative breeding system of the pied kingfisher, where less related secondary helpers invest less in feeding hatchlings.
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If the hatchlings ingest bits of eggshell or bury themselves in soil containing ice crystals, they will freeze at relatively high temperatures and survive only if subsequent temperatures do not go too low.
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Twelve weeks after they are laid, the hatchling turtles emerge from their shells and make for the sea.
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The stomach contents consisted not of belemnites, but of fish and hatchling turtles.
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But just like any youngster we ensure the hatchling eats all the veggies first.
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Jim believes that this site was raided by mesosuchian crocodiles, which would eat the eggs/hatchlings and yearlings known from this site*.
Fieldwork Friday #9
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This entanglement of roots provides a safe nursery for hatchling sea fishes.
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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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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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Males in two species are known to guard egg clutches and carry hatchlings on their backs.
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The Baby Louie hatchling may be a species of giant oviraptor.
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There's simply nothing, nothing in the world, that warms the heart so much or makes us feel needed and worthwhile. â¨â¨But sometimes, just like that helpless hatchling struggling for survival, in order to truly help, we need to step away, let it go, and watch that birdling fly.
Layla Revis: Mrs. Fix It
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Hatchlings are almost naked, their eyes are closed, and they are helpless, but they develop rapidly.
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In the tropics, where life's maximal abundance is, the young offspring (seedling, hatchling, larva, zoospore, myxocyst, swarmer or germling) remains unrecognized and nameless unless scientifically described.
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Males in two species are known to guard egg clutches and carry hatchlings on their backs.
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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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Other containers house giant cockroaches and itty-bitty arachnid hatchlings, a few months old and smaller than a pinky nail.
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But sometimes, just like that helpless hatchling struggling for survival, in order to truly help, we need to step away, let it go, and watch that birdling fly.
Layla Revis: Mrs. Fix It
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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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Most of the action takes place beneath the surface of Mars, where hatchling kiddies are raised by nannybots in an elaborately technological setting that owes much of its retro esthetic to Terry Gilliam.
See Jane Blossom: An Enthralling 'Eyre'
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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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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 presence of remnant yolk sacs was a good indication that these were indeed hatchlings emerging from their nests.
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The female incubates her large clutch, and both parents tend the hatchlings.
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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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To protect eggs and hatchlings from predators, volunteers and staff search for nests and collect eggs for incubation.
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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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Only female hummingbirds are involved in parental care; they must incubate eggs, brood young hatchlings, and feed the chicks as nestlings and fledglings.
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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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Hatchlings that successfully make the trek from their nests to the relative safety of the gulf and ocean waters find sanctuary from predators in large, floating beds of sargassum seaweed far offshore.
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New moms and dads everywhere respond to shrill baby peeps with excited nods and bows, carefully clearing away eggshell shards from around fragile hatchlings tucked between their feet.
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Presumably (though this has still to be proved) the hatchling sharks are eating the worms and perhaps, if their teeth are up to the necessary crunching, the clams.
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The eggs and hatchlings of the chambered nautilus are the largest of all cephalopods.
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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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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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Pots clattered; hatchlings cheeped with single-minded fury.
Snarkometer #24
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Unlike certain avian brood parasites, such as cuckoos and honeyguides, hatchling brown-headed cowbirds rarely directly destroy or actively displace host eggs and nestlings.
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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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But the image of a nude Daenerys, sitting amid the ashes of Khal Drogo's funeral pyre as her three hatchling dragons emerge around their queen, didn't disappoint.
Critic's Notebook: A Tale of Two Finales
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The hatchlings have a beak with a raptorial hook that they use to stab host nestlings.
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Members of all vertebrate classes predate eggs and hatchlings.
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A being at the hack of the crowd, a Quillp in full postmating plumage, craned its thin ostrichlike neck forward and asked in a high, squeaky voice, 'In what summer-month my hatchlings come a-bout will?'
The Tar-Aiym Krang
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The hatchling was the culmination of three years of effort by zookeepers watching over every step of its parents 'courtship and mating to make sure everything went as planned, said Tay.
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Fledging success (proportion of hatchlings that resulted in fledged young) was considered as a partial measure of reproductive success.
