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Like a mongrel duck's egg under a respectable hen, it was left to incubate undisturbed, to surprise everybody at the hatching.
Several studies of incubating birds suggest that, in at least some situations, adults need not raise metabolic levels, but in others.
They rushed upon the body in which they'd been so violently incubated and swiftly, systematically devoured it, blood, bone and sinew.
Jenner's researches respecting the cuckoo; as also some discoveries respecting the incubated egg, which were published as new in the above year.
The two white eggs, about the size of beans, are incubated, and then the two diminutive birds appear in the silken thimble.
When a hen imagines that she is inspired to incubate, she at once ceases to be an ornament to society and becomes a crank.
The eggs require about the same time to incubate as the goose egg (five weeks) and they do not hatch well in an incubator.
It is therefore but reasonable to suppose the incubating bird to be in a very peculiar and excitable state, a state bordering on insanity.
Molds destroy a high percentage of all reptilian eggs that are incubated artificially and doubtless destroy many under natural conditions also.
Because the incubating bird is quiet, and her back so perfectly resembles the leaves and twigs near her, she is very difficult to see.
Fertility and Prenatal Mortality Eggs were incubated in the laboratory at more nearly optimum temperature and humidity than were eggs in natural nests.
After female ducks start to incubate their eggs, the males of most species of ducks flock by themselves and remain together until fall.
It is fixed on the tripod, and fifteen liters of air are drawn through, and the tube is properly plugged and incubated at room temperature.
After the females start to incubate their eggs, the males of most species of ducks flock by themselves and remain together until fall.
The mothers all incubate at one and the same time, and the legion of fathers watches around them, prepared to sacrifice themselves in their behalf.
The hen alone incubates, but she is not often seen upon the nest, for she leaves it at the first sound of a human footfall.
The dutiful and well-trained males are all at home, where they are responsible for the entire task of caring for, and incubating, the eggs.
Partially incubated hen's eggs may be obtained at a small cost almost anywhere, and the later stages profitably examined and dissected under warm water.
A few black-necked storks do not lay until November; thus there is always the chance of coming upon an incubating stork in the present month.
These formulations of the death idea may occur as tentative solutions of the patient's problems leading to temporary manic episodes while the psychosis is incubating.
Dung is best incubated in a light place, for example on a window sill, in a warm room on layers of blotting paper or other absorbent material.
Unless seals are used bring the water as well as the sewage to the temperature at which the mixtures are to be incubated before preparing the dilutions.
When incubating time comes they seek the higher, dryer, and more open places, grassy and brush-covered abandoned plantations, there to carry out the duties of reproduction.
Seven of these are all alike and are well incubated, while the eighth is quite fresh, and doubtless owes its parentage to one of the above-mentioned Cuckoos.
Making a nest in one corner of the room, she put in it a few kitchen utensils, which she supposed to be eggs, and began to incubate.
It was placed in the crotch of an alder at a height of two feet, and contained, on the ninth day of June, four slightly incubated eggs.
Dung is best incubated in a light place, for example on a table in a warm room, on layers of moist filter paper or other absorbent material.
The song period was evidently past, but a nest of five eggs slightly incubated, was taken from a heather slope on the 20th of the month.
It seemed impossible that in these men lurked a bitter race hatred, or that hearts as warm and happy could be incubating the germs of cowardly murder.
They seem to be commonest during the period immediately preceding the stupor, as all but five of these cases spoke of death while the psychosis was incubating.
The most remarkable circumstance connected with the economy of this species is the fact of its eggs not being incubated in the manner of other birds.
When disturbed at the nest the incubating bird has been seen to use quick pecking motions to draw material from the edge of the nest over the eggs.
There is no experimental proof that insect parasites can successfully attack the eggs of cockroaches that incubate their eggs while they are being carried by the female.
Probably the female does most, or all, of the incubating and brooding, but both sexes assist in feeding the young and in swallowing or removing the fecal sacs.
Neither Mavis nor Clive had had mumps, and it was hoped they might escape, though as they had been with Merle the germs might still be incubating.
In the first half of the play the main conflict is merely incubating; then it bursts into life, and goes storming, without intermission or change of direction, to its close.
This is a most important point especially for young children, who may already be incubating a disease which but for this prophylactic injection might occur and prove fatal.
The glacier had, in fact, been shocked into giving birth to a whole litter of real icebergs where, nearer at hand, we had failed dismally in our efforts to incubate even an artificial one.
If it can be proved that when on the nest the actions of this bird are mechanical, it will follow that the less intelligent birds are likewise mere automata when incubating.
Every once in a while you'll find a dumb ass of a man whose brain will get to boiling with liquor or some other ferment, and it'll incubate an idea, a real idea.
Although there are records of nests containing two incubated eggs or two young birds, these probably represent incomplete sets or cases where an egg or a nestling has been destroyed.
By often applying smoke, too, they are aroused from their idleness to work; but if they have not duly incubated in the comb, it is apt to become of a livid color.
Now they saw the great incubating vats, and the processing and finally the showroom where one of the finished products was on display as a maid, sweeping and dusting.
They will otherwise drop their eggs carelessly here and there, or incubate in places where their eggs will be sucked by crows, and half their progeny destroyed by rats.
He also sings well in captivity and when his mate is incubating; and his voice is first heard welcoming the dawn from the eaves and tiled roofs of houses where he roosts.
This view is substantiated by the fact that the eggs of water fowl which are in nature incubated in damper places, have a lower water content than the eggs of land birds.
He had become convinced that this species of snake forms a sort of nest, and incubates its eggs; when subsequently, one that he had in captivity produced living young, he was staggered.
In the first few words of the above, Jones spoke of reptiles generally from toads to turtles; with the latter, soft eggs would certainly fare badly did they attempt to incubate them.
There are, however, a few exceptions, one of the most curious being that of certain fish of the Dead Sea, in which the male incubates the eggs by taking them into his buccal cavity.
If they cannot be set to incubate soon after collection they can be gently air dried, as most dung fungi will remain alive after such treatment and grow out when the sample is eventually moistened.
The saddle gave the horse a sore back, the horse fell down and broke its knees, the cow dried up in a fortnight, and the incubator cooked eggs to perfection, but it wouldn't incubate them.
She does nothing of the sort, preferring to roam from one find to the other and to take from each the wherewithal to model a single pellet, which is left to itself for the soil to incubate.
In domestication the eggs of most kinds of birds are removed from the nests daily as laid, and the birds lay many more eggs before they stop to incubate than they do in the wild state.
If it is an advantage that the cuckoo should migrate early, it clearly becomes an advantage, in order to admit of this, that the habit should be formed of leaving her eggs for other birds to incubate.
The aperture at the side acts as a window as well as a door; the hen, who alone incubates, sits on her eggs, looking out of the little window with her chin resting comfortably on the sill.
The hen may lay and incubate an egg; but what hen ever invented an incubator to save her long sitting in one pose or place, or studied the development of life in and from the egg she produced?
In the wild state a bird, if not molested after it begins laying, produces a number of eggs varying in different kinds, according to the number of young that can be cared for, and then incubates them.
Who, with any certainty, can tell whether a mother whale hatches her own egg her own self or leaves it on the sheltered bosom of a fjord to be incubated by the gentle warmth of the midnight sun?
Root's hen had shown some signs of this mania, so he took out the eggs and let her try her incubate on a horse rake awhile, just so she could kind of taper off gradual and not have her mind shattered.
Cliffs with plenty of ledges and hollows are preferred, and in such chosen spots the birds crowd so closely that, at some stations, the wonder is how each individual can possibly find room to incubate its egg, or even secure a standing place in the general throng.
Calling the following week I found the mother bird had incubated the brood as though nothing had happened, but the young were taken from the nest as soon as they could be moved and some days before they would ordinarily have been allowed to leave home.
Darwin attempts to explain these reversals of instincts on the assumption that the males have turned the tables on the females, and have themselves done the selecting; and incidentally, it may be pointed out in passing, they have had to pay the penalty by incubating the eggs.
This process is rendered the more easy by the fact that toward the last the shell becomes very rotten; the acids that are generated by the growing chick eat it and make it brittle, so that one can hardly touch a fully incubated bird's egg without breaking it.
When the incubating bird leaves the nest she invariably covers the white eggs with wet weeds, and, as Hume remarks, it is almost impossible to catch the old bird on the nest or to take her so much by surprise as not to allow her time to cover up the eggs.
The Bass Rock, one of the largest and best known of these colonies, is, in summer, a sight never to be forgotten; the whole of the face of the cliff appearing entirely white, from the closely packed sitting birds, who at this season are very tame and allow themselves to be stroked while incubating.
We also saw its tracks on the sand when crossing the dried beds of the swamps at least two miles from the breeding thicket, which proves that the bird in procuring its food does not confine itself to the bushes around its nest, but merely resorts to them for the purpose of incubating.
She is entirely absorbed in the eggs when she is incubating, and, though she may not have the intellect to distinguish a mere lump of chalk from one of her own eggs, yet love is altogether independent of intellect, and may exist in all its vigor, and yet may be wasted on an unworthy object.