Sentence examples for offspring need from inspiring English sources

Extracting nutrients from one's offspring need not be fatal, though.

The offspring need tetracycline to develop but cannot find it and so die.

People don't decide to have children because those hypothetical offspring need someone to care for them; those children's needs don't exist until they are brought into the world.

This threshold is lower when (i) offspring get satiated more quickly, (ii) the cost of provisioning to the parent escalates less rapidly, or (iii) the variation in offspring need is higher.

If one parent has to put a lot of time and effort into rearing their young, they are likely to be much fussier about picking the right partner, compared to parents whose offspring need little attention.

In May Huggies announced the TweetPee device, a moisture-measuring sensor that clips onto a nappy and then sends a message out to tell parents when their offspring need changing.

In human infants, there is the same kind of "information battle", in which parents try to understand the cues that accurately convey information about what their offspring needs, versus what they can get away with.

Expression of a gene in an offspring needs an RNA (but not the protein it codes for) provided by its mother.

The palmar grasp reflex of human babies is thought to be a vestige from ancestral primates, where offspring needed a firm grasp of their mothers' fur as they were carried (Dewey [1935]).

Some birds strictly eat seeds, so their offspring needs an appropriate variety of hand feeding formula every half hour.

One chimp, Pan, showed an unusual preference to offer the brush first, regardless of the task at hand, but once it was removed, she typically picked the tool her offspring needed.