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... nest constructed by the parent , or the skin of the mother's back . Behaviour . Because their life history involves both land and water , most amphibians have behaviour patterns built around a seasonal movement between breeding sites ...
... nest constructed by the parent , or the skin of the mother's back . Behaviour . Because their life history involves both land and water , most amphibians have behaviour patterns built around a seasonal movement between breeding sites ...
Page 430
... nest - building hylid , Hyla faber , has a long , sharp spine on the thumb with which males wound each other when ... nest , and the tadpoles undergo their development in the nests . Some frogs in the families Leptodactylidae , Ranidae ...
... nest - building hylid , Hyla faber , has a long , sharp spine on the thumb with which males wound each other when ... nest , and the tadpoles undergo their development in the nests . Some frogs in the families Leptodactylidae , Ranidae ...
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... nests , for example , are known to have returned within a year . The mechanism fails to explain , however , how emperor ... nest maintenance would be impossible in the driving snows of Antarctic blizzards . Sea life . The prolific ...
... nests , for example , are known to have returned within a year . The mechanism fails to explain , however , how emperor ... nest maintenance would be impossible in the driving snows of Antarctic blizzards . Sea life . The prolific ...
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