hatching
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A bird may incorrectly attribute its stress to its partner, rather than the harsher environment, and separate even if hatching was successful, the researchers speculate.
Albatrosses divorce more often when ocean waters warm | Richard Kemeny | November 24, 2021 | Science NewsAmong modern birds, the ability to fly immediately after hatching is almost unknown — with the notable exception of the maleo, a strange chickenlike bird that lives only on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
Pterosaurs may have been able to fly as soon as they hatched | Carolyn Gramling | July 22, 2021 | Science NewsAs soon as nine days after hatching, the larvae began striking rapidly.
Mantis shrimp start practicing their punches at just 9 days old | Charles Choi | April 29, 2021 | Science NewsMale eggs are then used for animal feed and the females continue toward hatching.
Why the US egg industry is still killing 300 million chicks a year | Tove K. Danovich | April 12, 2021 | VoxAnd the wildest pattern is a subtle gray on gray cross-hatching.
He decries the search for “velvet-jacketed Bond villains” hatching a “malevolent plan.”
A reptile hatching from an egg must not cry out for its mother, or else it will be readily detected by predators and eaten.
The delicate cross-hatching that reached back to Hogarth and Dore was not as precise as it had been, but he was over 80 now.
Maurice Sendak Is Remembered Fondly by Author and Filmmaker William Joyce | William Joyce | May 9, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat on earth are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama hatching up for the Middle East this time?
Those in that trough right behind you are just hatching, they're from the first batch of spawn in the early spring run.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries | Francis Rolt-WheelerThey are hatching out some marvelous schemes to write a play together.
Quin | Alice Hegan RiceAn incubator about hatching time is a wonderful object lesson in teaching the story of life.
The Mother and Her Child | William S. SadlerThe hatching of all things out of an egg was another rude conception, chiefly noted among the Finns.
Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 | Andrew Lang“Oh, those brutes are hatching no more mischief than usual,” grumbled the latter, who was hot and tired.
Forging the Blades | Bertram Mitford
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