Sentence examples for foster brood from inspiring English sources
The young cuckoo has evolved an astonishing form of behaviour, that of nest-mate eviction, that ensures that it will not have to compete with members of the foster brood for food.
Siblings were placed in the same foster brood, with each foster brood including chicks from both treatments.
The yolk androgen levels for a foster brood were estimated as the mean level in the single eggs collected from clutches from which the chicks originated, weighted by the number of chicks from each original clutch.
These 60 nestlings were arranged into ten new foster broods, with a brood size of six chicks.
Within each brood size treatment, foster broods did not differ in mass at hatching (always p > 0.605).
Shortly after hatching (oldest chick 3 5 days old) we conducted a simultaneous cross-fostering and brood size manipulation [33], to increase or reduce the needs of the brood and to disentangle the effects of growth environment and origin on plasma carotenoid levels of chicks.
I used a full-factorial cross-fostering design with brood (i.e. focal individuals) and care-giving workers of the three Temnothorax species.
O'Donnell's decision to return to "The View," if for only a day, probably has something to do with her current gig on the ABC Family series, "The Fosters," about a lesbian couple with a brood of multiethnic foster children.
In a series of flashbacks, we learn that Dexter's late foster father, Harry (a brooding, careworn James Remar), was the one person who understood him, who knew that something — perhaps the unremembered events that orphaned the boy — made him a freak.
The upcoming documentary by Julia Ivanova, titled Family Portrait in Black and White features a Ukrainian foster mother, Olga, and her brood of 27 foster kids.
