By August the adult males, and the second year young (by then approaching adult size) were found in still smaller numbers, but the number of hatchlings and of adult females approximated those recorded in July.
Hatchlings first appeared from early July to late July in different years; few were recorded in July in some years.
Hatchlings of the same brood differ perceptibly in size with several per cent variation in total length, and weight.
Each year, earliest appearance of hatchlings is in a warm, sunny situation, and in cooler, well shaded places hatchlings appear somewhat later.
On many occasions hatchlingsand young of various sizes were kept with adults of both sexes and subadults, but no instances of cannibalism were ever recorded in captivity.
Two broods of hatchlings were still in their respective nest cavities, and one entire clutch had not begun to hatch although its incubation was nearly completed.
On several occasions groups of hatchlings were seen on logs within which they probably had hatched.
Hatchlings have the most brightly colored tails, and as growth proceeds the colors gradually become duller.
They found that in this species hatching occurs in July and August, hatchlings are about 25 mm.
Hatchlings average a little less than an inch in snout-vent length, and have a sharply defined five-lined pattern on a black ground color, and vivid blue tail.
Records of Individual Skinks Marked asHatchlings (Before the First Hibernation) and Recaptured the Following Year.
By early September few skinks except hatchlings are to be found, and activity continues to wane throughout the month.
Nine hatchlings from the Pearl River at Varnado have more (all small) dorsal spots, which may be ocellate.
Depth of shell was taken only on hatchlings and an immature female.
Hatchlings were arbitrarily designated as specimens having plastrons shorter than 44 mm; sex of all specimens except adult males was determined by dissection unless otherwise noted.
The holotype resembles hatchlings from the Escambia River in having large, non-ocellate dorsal spots 3 mm in greatest diameter, and larger measurements.
The hatchlings of Trionyx muticus referred to by Anderson (loc.
Growth Hatching usually occurs in late August or early September, and the disparity in size between hatchlings and adults is greater than in some other kinds of snakes.
I have rarely seen the hatchlings under natural conditions except by finding them hiding beneath flat rocks.
In hatchlings there is a slight average difference between the sexes in relative tail length, with males' tails the longer.
The hatchlings are relatively secretive and elusive, and the lush vegetation of late summer provides them with abundant hiding places.
Hatchlings usually make several longitudinal slits in the eggshell with the egg tooth before emerging, and often require a day or more to emerge after the first slit is made.
Judging from trends in the small samples available, sex ratio in hatchlings is approximately 1:1.
Nevertheless it is remarkable that the hatchlings are so seldom seem, when their probable abundance is taken into account.
Eggs and hatchlings of the snake Coluber constrictor mormon from Oregon.
Unfortunately it was not possible to obtain definite figures on any of these losses since the eggs were never found under natural conditions and the hatchlings were seen only in relatively small numbers.
In the same group of hatchlings sign of impending molt was first noticed on the morning of August 17, when no.
It is demonstrated that hatchlings are approximately the same length in both populations, but flaviventris grows much longer, and that the differences in length between the sexes is approximately the same in each population.
In life the hatchlings had a dull dark green dorsum, pale bright green venter and stripes on head, and reddish brown iris.
In preservative the hatchlings are creamy tan above with five or six square dark brown blotches middorsally.
Hatchlings burrow almost straight upward through the sand leaving the egg shell below the surface and a hole in the sand about an inch in diameter.
The average plastral length of most hatchlingsprobably is 28.
The sex of some hatchlings can be distinguished by the pattern on the carapace (see Plate 37 for different patterns), but the sex of many hatchlings cannot be distinguished on the basis of pattern.
There are no data to indicate a difference in size of hatchlings among the American species of soft-shelled turtles.
The transition from the dark coloration ofhatchlings to the paler coloration of adults is gradual and subject to individual variation.
Hatchlings and juveniles were notched with a sharp knife.
Hatchlings and juveniles at the Damm Farm were always active on days when at least some adults were also active.
In hatchlings the ground color ordinarily is dark brown but in some individuals is paler brown or tan.
The iris of hatchlings and juveniles is flecked with yellow and brown; the blending of these colors makes the eye appear yellow, golden, or light brown when viewed without magnification.
Growth of Juveniles Areas of new laminal growth were discernible on laboratory hatchlings soon after they ate regularly.
If sand or soil was available, hatchlings soon burrowed into it and became inactive.
Meat, vegetables, and most other motionless but edible objects were ignored by hatchlings but some individuals learned to eat meat after several forced feedings.
Some hatchlings actively pursued mealworms; on subsequent feedings they learned to associate my presence with food and eagerly took mealworms from forceps or from my hand.
Hatchlings that refused to eat or that were experimentally starved did not grow.
The infrequency with whichhatchlings and small juveniles of ornate box turtles are observed is well known to naturalists.
Hatchlings that emerge in late autumn or that remain in the nest until spring are probably unable to find enough food to sustain growth.
Hatchlings can withdraw the head and forelegs only to a line running between the anterior edges of the shell.
Hatchlings can elevate the plastron to an angle of approximately nine degrees; the plastron of an adult, with shell closed, is elevated about 50 degrees.
Dark markings on plastra of hatchlings are unbroken.
Hatchlings flex the plastron chiefly in the region of the humeropectoral seam, rather than at the anlage of the transverse hinge.
Overwintering in the nest, hatchlings might survive more often than eggs, since hatchlings could burrow into the walls and floor of the nest cavity.
Hatchlings are whitish and semi-transparent and about one-half inch long.
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