Are we to seek it in the 'Reaction' of the Tadpoles and the Tapers?
Mr. Rigby, who liked to be doing a great many things at the same time, and to astonish the Tadpoles and Tapers with his energetic versatility, determined to superintend the education of Coningsby.
Questions altogether above your Tadpoles and your Tapers, whose idea of the necessities of the age was that they themselves should be in office.
I believe that box turtles at the Damm Farm were sometimes able to catch young frogs andtadpoles (chiefly Rana catesbeiana and R.
Tadpoles of Scaphiopus hammondi were caught in a small pool and eaten.
Thus tadpole monsters have been formed from tadpolesexposed four days after birth to radium rays.
Once there were eleven tadpoles in a glass globe set in a window full of plants.
It was great fun to plunge my hand into the bowl and feel the tadpoles frisk about, and to let them slip and slide between my fingers.
Just hatched toad tadpoles climbing up where the water is better aerated.
If a small quantity of this jelly-like mass be secured by means of a collecting net or by wading in for it, it may be kept in a flat white dish with just enough clean, cool water to cover it, until the young tadpoles have hatched.
Then sometimes there is an especially dry summer, and only those that transform very early from tadpoles to toads are saved.
While there may be thousands of tadpoles in the natural pond, it will be readily seen that, compared with the amount of water present, there are really rather few.
It is easier to see the actual shortening if the tadpolesare put in a white dish of clear water without any water plants.
Then it is very interesting to see what the tadpoles do, how they eat, and any signs of breathing.
At first the little tadpolesbreathe the air dissolved in the water, just as a fish does.
We call the young of the frog, the toad and the tree toad, tadpoles or polliwogs.
The tadpoles do not eat anything while they are changing to toads, so they will not need to be fed.
From the first to the middle of June the tadpoles should be watched with especial care, for wonderful things are happening.
If one looks at it perhaps he may wonder what becomes of all the tadpoles that first hatch, as only two toads are shown at the top.
If one should use a narrow and deep vessel, like a fruit jar, only a small amount of air could be taken up by the water and the tadpoles would be half suffocated.
One must not attempt to raise too many tadpoles in the artificial pond in the laboratory or school-room or there will not be enough food, and all will be half starved, or some will get the food and the rest will starve to death.
Frog culture is successful in some places where ponds are large enough to be partitioned, separating the tadpoles and young frogs from the old ones, and where insects are abundant enough to supply food naturally for them.
There are so many enemies that few tadpoles become adult frogs; besides, the frog is a cannibal and will eat not only the larvae or eggs, but the tadpoles and young frogs as well.
He laughed as he answered: "They are tadpoles and they are not going anywhere.
Pinkie Whiskers kept thinking of the tadpoles and without saying a word he slipped away from the others and went back to the creek.
Don't you know that frogs and tadpoles have feelings and hearts as well as yourself?
They all watched the tadpoles swim about until Mother Gray said: "Come, children, we will have our supper now.
In three weeks, when the tadpoles are ready to come out, he plunges into the pond and is freed from his living burden and his family cares.
The earliest representatives had fish-like characters even more marked than those which may be discerned in the tadpoles of our frogs and toads, and there is no doubt that amphibians sprang from a fish stock.
When the tadpoles were left to themselves, the females were rather in the majority.
By June 8 all the eggs had hatched and the tadpoles were active.
In the next stage observed, that is to say in Tadpoles of four, five, to six lines long, an astonishing transformation has taken place.
The tadpoles of Toads are the smallest, Pseudophryne australis excelling in this respect; those of Pseudis are the largest known.
In these and similar cases the eggs and tadpoles are abandoned by the parents; but many frogs watch over and care for their young.
A West African species carries its eggs in its mouth; and the male of Darwin's frog, of Chile, carries the eggs in a great vocal pouch beneath its throat, which subsequently forms a nursery for the tadpoles until they emerge as young frogs.
Indeed, this was true; for tadpoles always become frogs when a few days old.
It was one of those fishes that hold their great mouths wide open, and I was horrified when I saw the advancing line of tadpoles headed directly toward the gaping mouth of the monster fish.
We lived in a snug little hole under the bank of the river, and in front of our dwelling was a large stone on which we could sit and watch the baby tadpoles grow.
The next moment all the line of swimming tadpoles had entered the fish's mouth and were lost to our view.
Then it began to dry up, and some of the tadpoles were left stranded in the deep foot-prints of the cows along the edge of the hole.
One of the most striking observations in this direction is the one made by Gudernatsch on the growth of the legs of tadpoles of frogs and toads.
Gudernatsch found that legs can be induced to grow in tadpolesat any time, even in very young specimens, by feeding them with the thyroid gland (no matter from what animal).
It seems, however, that if species of tadpoles of two more distant species are grafted upon each other no lasting graft can be obtained, e.
The young tadpoles have no legs, but the mesenchyme cells from which the legs are to grow out later are present at an early stage.
There would be a greater number of tadpolesto compete for the same amount of nutriment.
Among the well-nourished tadpoles there would be a preponderance of females.
The tiny tadpolesvery soon have to obtain their own food and run all the risks of destruction.
Thus to some extent a balance between the number of tadpoles and the amount of available nutrition would be maintained.
The blotches are most distinct in small tadpoles and sometimes indistinct in large ones.
Tadpoles Tadpoles of the genus Ptychohyla are adapted to live in mountain streams.
The similarity in structure of the adults and tadpoles and the indistinguishable breeding calls are the basis for considering the two populations subspecies.
Lips of tadpoles of the Ptychohyla schmidtorum group (Fig.
The result of this field work is a rather large collection of Ptychohyla representing all of the known species, plus tape recordings of the breeding calls and tadpoles of all of the species.
Therefore, it seems as though the presence of the stream-habitat for the tadpoles is a significant factor in the ecological distribution of the species of Ptychohyla.
The presence of these streams, in which the tadpoles live, seems to be an important factor in the distribution of Ptychohyla.
The tadpoles cling to rocks on the bottom of the streams; there they move slowly across the rocks, apparently feeding on the thin covering of algae.
Some specimens in a series of tadpoles from 32 kilometers north of Morazan, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, have faint dorsal blotches on the dorsal musculature, much like those in tadpoles of Ptychohyla leonhardschultzei.
Tadpoles of the Ptychohyla euthysanota group: (A) P.
Tadpoles in various stages of development were found at Finca La Paz, Guatemala, in late July.
Stuart, who has made many valuable suggestions and with his characteristic generosity has placed at my disposal his extensive collections of tadpoles from Guatemala.
Certain other mountain brook tadpoles (for example, Borborocoetes) show similar devices, but these are developed independently, as specializations from the usual sort of tadpole.
But there are frogs and tadpoles by the thousand in due season; and, what is odder still, the frogs are there now, though you cannot see them.
The logical step after the tadpoles and the kitten was to vaccinate the human mammal with his serum.
He remembered the tadpolesand made a simple calculation.
If I am wronging tadpoles as a nation, I am sorry.
It may be that a watched tadpole never changes; and certainly tadpoles do seem to suffer from nerves, because if one disturbs the surface of a pond where they are occupying themselves, away go the whole crowd like a lot of animated commas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tadpoles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
