A hatchling uncovered beneath a flat rock ran to a nearby oak tree about four inches in diameter and climbed to a height of five feet before it was caught.
Old adult male, year-old young and hatchling in July, showing differences in size and pattern.
Among 217 identified prey items from stomachs and scats of Sonoran skinks (Eumeces obsoletus) from northeastern Kansas were remains of three hatchling five-lined skinks.
One hatchling was missing, evidently having climbed out of the shallow dish and escaped to the floor.
One hatchling of this group ate its own tail that had been broken off in handling.
In the hatchling the ground color of the head and body is black or dark brown, with five milky white longitudinal stripes extending the length of the head and body, and on the basal one-fourth of the tail.
These grown young retain the hatchling pattern but the contrast between stripes and ground color, and between body and tail is not quite so sharp.
The opened egg was placed on damp soil in a shady place near the nest, but two hours later the hatchling had been killed and partly eaten by swarms of ants.
They retain the hatchlingpattern essentially unchanged, but with colors dulled and contrasts reduced.
The hatchling gradually becoming active inside the egg, slits the leathery shell with its egg tooth, and spends several hours in the early stages of emergence.
When it ran, the hatchling skinks immediately became alert and several chased it biting at it in frantic excitement.
The mathematical mean of the ratio, abdominal length/plastral length, in each of the four groups of larger-sized turtles, was not significantly different from the same ratio in the hatchling group.
Brecheisen, eight days elapsed between onset of hatching and appearance of the first hatchling at the surface.
Plastron of hatchling (A-- 2), cleared and stained to show bony structure.
At the Reservation, a freshly killed juvenile was found beneath the nest of a crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) and remains of a hatchlingwere found in a scat of a copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix).
Apparently, on dropping into the water the hatchling tadpoles go to the bottom of the pond, for one or two minutes pass from the time they enter the water until they reappear near the surface.
The average total length of seven hatchling tadpoles is 7.
In 1953, I casually glanced at a hatchling softshell from the Calcasieu River drainage in the private collection of Mr. Wilfred T.
The hatchling does deviate from "typical" pallidus in having darkish flecks posteriorly on the carapace.
My examination of this specimen reveals that it is a hatchling T.
The smallest hatchling that I have seen measures 21.
The drawing of the dorsal view of a hatchling emoryi (Agassiz, 1857:Pl.
Hatchling turtles of two kinds (Chrysemys picta, Terrapene carolina) have been reported in the racer's food.
In 254 scats of the slender glass lizard (Ophisaurus attenuatus) vertebrate remains were rare, but there were scales and bones of one hatchling blue racer.
None of the young captured was as small as the average hatchling from the clutches incubated in captivity, but in the 14 years of my study only four young were captured in August.
The hatchling struck vigorously many times, and vibrated his tail when he was disturbed.
A large adult vole is too large to be swallowed except by an unusually large racer, and a young vole old enough to leave its nest is far too large for a hatchling racer.
This hatchling was lying on its back at first but by 10:50 it had shifted to a normal position.
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