Sentence examples for bird offspring from inspiring English sources

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The pelican colony began to flourish and the birds' offspring helped repopulate the coastline, Mr. St.

Total genomic DNA was extracted from blood samples of dominant and subordinate birds, offspring, and tissue samples of eggs using standard salt-extraction described in [ 72].

In this protocol, DNA alteration that occurs in a bird's offspring is determined by rotating the roulette wheels of the Gamete Mutation Box (GMB), which consists of a short DNA sequence and two roulette wheels.

Bats feed hungry brethren; honeybees commit suicide with a sting to defend the hive; birds raise offspring that aren't their own; humans leap onto subway tracks to save strangers.

The assessed risk of being cuckolded is possibly more likely to influence subsequent paternal care than the actual occurrence of extra-pair young (EPY) because, at least in some taxa such as birds, the offspring (eggs for instance) may not provide sufficient information for recognition (Davies 1992; Osorio-Beristain and Drummond 2001; Komdeur et al. 2007; Griffith et al. 2009).

When representatives from the union came to talk to Bishop Moussa, the church's bishop for youth, he gently pushed them away, like a mother bird nudging her offspring out of the nest.

Sex hormone deposits in the yolk come mainly from the ovaries, which appear to deposit egg hormone levels independently from the circulating levels [36], hence offering a mechanism for a female bird to change offspring phenotypes without affecting her own.

Transmission of lice between birds occurs mainly during periods of direct contact, as occurs between parent birds and their offspring in the nest [ 7].

* ED RUSCHA, "Birds, Fish and Offspring," C & M Arts, 45 East 78th Street, (212) 861-0020 (through June 8).

The birds were the offspring of adults raised in captivity and later released.