Sentence examples for carrying offspring from inspiring English sources
Female bat flies that were carrying offspring were identified based on their large and distended abdomen [8], [23].
Female C. sculpturatus are viviparous [ 21], and following parturition exhibit maternal care by carrying offspring on their backs.
We investigated potential tradeoffs that may occur between reproductive activities and feeding performance in female Arizona Bark Scorpions (Centruroides sculpturatus) by comparing the time taken to capture prey between non-reproductive and reproductive females (gravid females and females exhibiting maternal care, i.e. carrying offspring on their backs).
Recent data show that each female simultaneously carry offspring sired by 10 20 males [30], [31] supporting the prediction that female L. saxatilis are not sperm-limited.
For example, chronic stress in response to human presence may decrease reproductive rates [27], [42] if stressed females are less able to get pregnant or carry offspring to term.
However, stygobiont amphipods have a comparatively reduced dispersal potential (as do all peracarid crustaceans), as the females carry offspring in a marsupium and these are brooded and not released into the water column until metamorphosed into diminutive non-natatory adults [ 15].
Under natural conditions, female scorpions are known to carry offspring for up to 51 days [ 21], and hence for female C. sculpturatus in nature, the negative effects of reproduction on predatory efficiency may be greater and extend for a longer time period than our trials allowed us to observe.
Mothers and fathers who smoke in cars carrying their offspring – who Field says "are committing a form of child abuse" – and at home in front of their children kill more young people than do accidental injuries.
In this photograph, you see one of the male frogs being tracked at our field site in French Guiana while carrying his offspring to the water".
Sixty of them carried his offspring.
Besides, that way you can volunteer to carry your offspring's goodie bags for them, and surreptitiously confiscate half of the chocolate.
