Sentence examples for lay smaller from inspiring English sources

Holding a severed, bespectacled goose head above a goose torso not far from a carton labeled "Antitrust," Feds tells the head, "We want you to lay smaller eggs and make 'em square, so they fit in the box".

Compared to uninfected controls, a mite-infested ladybird will typically lay smaller clutches and her eggs will be less viable.

Most dusky salamanders (Desmognathus) and Pacific giant salamanders (Dicamptodon) lay smaller batches of medium-sized eggs in a concealed site in flowing water, and these are usually guarded by an adult, normally the female.

Prediction 1: Females should lay smaller or fewer eggs when assisted by helper females but not helper males.

> -wrap-foot> Prediction 1: Females should lay smaller or fewer eggs when assisted by helper females but not helper males.

Consistent with the second prediction, females tended to lay smaller eggs in poor, but not good, acorn crop years when assisted by helper males.

The majority of tortoise species lay small clutches of eggs, typically fewer than 20, and many small-bodied species lay fewer than 5.

More than half of the members' birds are bantams, smaller heirloom-breed chickens that lay small eggs and are not raised for meat, suggesting that many or most of the organization's members may now be amateurs.

In the 1930s Dutch Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen found that birds that lay small, pale blue eggs speckled with grey preferred to sit on giant, bright blue plaster dummies with black polka dots.

Species that lay small fertilized eggs release them into the water as plankton, while species with larger eggs brood them either in the body's tube or stuck in the center of the lophophore by adhesive.

Although virgin D. melanogaster females will lay small amounts of unfertilized eggs, male ejaculatory proteins passed during copulation are known to significantly increase oviposition (reviewed in Wolfner 2002).