Sentence examples for may lay eggs from inspiring English sources

Several birds of the flock may cooperate in building a nest, in which two or more females may lay eggs and share incubation.

Other species may lay eggs or nurture their young in the uterus with a placental attachment to the mother, like humans.

In early summer they migrate to the mountains, particularly to the Sierra Nevada, where they may lay eggs if food is abundant and the weather warm.

Parasitoid and parasitic wasps and flies may lay eggs in the caterpillar, which eventually kill it as they hatch inside its body and eat its tissues.

All adult snails may lay eggs, although infected snails may lay eggs at a different rate (a') from uninfected snails (which lay at rate a), but overall egg production of the population is limited by density dependent regulation by a carrying capacity, K. Snail eggs die at rate δE and hatch at rate θE and juvenile snails die at rate δJ and mature to adult, uninfected snails at rate θS.

More interestingly, although immature worms may lay eggs which are occasionally shaped normally, those eggs are unable to induce the formation of granulomas [ 5].

Secondly, the occurrence of such cuckoo eggs may differ between the two Fringilla hosts for reasons that are completely unrelated to a coevolutionary process, for example because of differences in host community composition (host-specific gentes may accidentally lay eggs in other hosts' nests [22]).

The reproductive behaviour of fishes is remarkably diversified: they may be oviparous (lay eggs), ovoviparous (retain the eggs in the body until they hatch), or viviparous (have a direct tissue connection with the developing embryos and give birth to live young).

Some contents of a male's ejaculate may be allocated as nutrients for the eggs e.g. [ 92], or more importantly, act as stimulants for egg production/investment [ 55, 76] resulting in various egg sizes (i.e. females who receive larger amounts of seminal product may lay larger eggs than those females who receive less [ 90]).

Aquatic bugs may lay their eggs above or below the water's surface.

For example, one female snapping turtle (family Chelydridae) may lay 24 eggs; however, only 5 may survive to adulthood.