A Colombian female's brood of sixteen boa constrictors born in the Staten Island Zoo averaged 20 inches.

The young are born one by one after hatching and expelling the embryonic membrane, if any, and the brood is carried about on its mother's back until the young have undergone at least one molt.

After hatching, the hen fiercely guards the chicks, and will brood them when necessary to keep them warm, at first often returning to the nest at night.

According to Tolkien, he sired the rest of his race, or at least the brood of Urulóki, wingless fire-breathing dragons.

The Red-billed Chough breeds from three years of age, and normally raises only one brood a year, although the age at first breeding is greater in large populations.

There are conflicting opinions on this phenomenon also called cainism —" No evidence of sibling aggression, but youngest in brood of 3 almost always dies of starvation ..." Considering that the 2 parents must provide food for 3 chicks at a rate of one feeding per hour after day 17 after incubation, one can understand why the last of the chicks to hatch has the least chance of survival.

Jessie Ballard eventually found work at General Motors but still struggled to take care of his growing brood.

It is suspected that chicks from the previous brood may act as helpers at the nest.

Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield went so far as to say that, " Quite frankly, I've admired Tommy Douglas and David Lewis, and those fellows in the NDP for having the courage to vote against that, although they took a lot of abuse at the time .... I don't brood about it.

Repentant sinners at first brood bitterly ( maror ) over their past misdeeds.

Where grass is not tall enough at the start of the season, the first nest may be constructed in herby or marsh vegetation, with the second brood in hay.

The second brood is started about 42 days after the first, and the incubation period is slightly shorter at 16 – 18 days.

Combined data for both years of the study at brood sites showed an average sagebrush cover of 14 % during June, 12 % during July, 10 % during August and 21 % during September, which reflects the vegetational types utilized by broods during the summer.

Height of sagebrush at brood sites ranged mainly between 6 to 18 inches ( 15. 2 – 45. 7 cm ).

One of the reasons they are efficient pollinators is their frequency of visits to plants, but this is because they are extremely inefficient at gathering pollen ; compared to all other bee families, megachilids require on average nearly 10 times as many trips to flowers to gather sufficient resources to provision a single brood cell.

* Fecundity-maintaining at least 9 frames of brood May-July

In feral hives the honey bees tend to put the brood at bottom center of the cavity, and honey to the sides and above the brood, so beekeepers are trying to follow the natural tendency of the bees.

Bee brood frames are composed of brood at various stages of development-eggs, larvae, and pupae.

It is recommended that new or recycled empty bars be placed at each side of the brood chamber just before spring build – up as it is easier for the bees to make new comb than to move honey stores to make room for new brood.

Filefish spawn at bottom sites prepared and guarded by the males ; both he and the female may guard the brood, or the male alone, depending on the species.

The wasps begin by fashioning a petiole, a short stalk which will connect the new nest to a substrate ( often the eave of a house or outbuilding ), and building a single brood cell at the end of it.

the extreme measurements of these fall between the lower limit of the Brookfield brood and its average.

Some species have benefited from this fact, for example the Brown-headed Cowbird, which is a brood parasite that lays its eggs in the nests of songbirds nesting in forest near the forest boundary.

Neo Lords were introduced near the end of the Neosapien War, so only a very limited number of them existed-in fact, only the test types, since the destruction of the Neo Lord breeding facility in the Antarctica by the Able Squad greatly delayed the release of the second brood.

Although always near a wild lupine plant, second brood females lay more eggs on grasses, other plants, and litter than 1st brood females.

R. R. Mole and F. W. Urich give approximately 20 inches as the average length of a brood of thirty from the region of the Orinoco estuaries.

The size of a mysid brood generally correlates to body length and environmental factors such as density and food availability.

Lawrence E. Griffin gives measurements of nineteen young anacondas, presumably members of a brood, from `` South America '' ; ;

There was a very old man and a young woman and a brood of children ranging from toddlers to teen-agers.

They broke their legs to prevent them from attempting to escape before being eaten, but kept them alive so that they could brood over their impending fate.

Data from Britain shows nesting pairs bringing up about 2-3 chicks on average, though this includes a considerable rate of total brood failures ; actually, few pairs that do manage to fledge offspring raise less than 3 or 4.

The word itself, Old English bread, is common in various forms to many Germanic languages, such as Frisian brea, Dutch brood, German Brot, Swedish bröd, and Norwegian and Danish brød ; it has been claimed to be derived from the root of brew.

Wax from the brood comb of the honey bee hive tends to be darker than wax from the honeycomb.

Most decapods carry the eggs attached to the pleopods, while peracarids, notostracans, anostracans, and many isopods form a brood pouch from the carapace and thoracic limbs.

Each female thus produces many thousands of triungulin larvae that emerge from the brood opening on the head, which protrudes outside the host body.

They differ from related animals, such as Caridea and Stenopodidea, by the branching form of the gills and by the fact that they do not brood their eggs, but release them directly into the water.

These cells then become vacuolated and are known as brood capsules, which are the parts of the parasite from which protoscolices bud.

Females can raise a brood alone, fertilizing her eggs using sperm stored from previous copulations.

Even as late as 1917, The German ambassador in Vienna, Count Otto Wedel would write to Berlin saying " The Empress is descended from an Italian princely house ... People do not entirely trust the Italian and her brood of relatives.

Her successful avoidance of further pregnancies would have been a natural reaction to having been assigned the role of an imperial brood mare, bearing a child a year only to have it taken away from her, but the importance of preserving her youthful appearance was an important influence in her decision: " Children are the curse of a woman, for when they come, they drive away Beauty, which is the best gift of the gods ".

When the hatching parasite eggs of the Sacculina are ready to emerge from the brood pouch of Sacculina, the crab performs a similar process.

Varying by species, brood sizes range from fifty to a thousand eggs.

* Belgium: verloren brood, wentelteefjes, gewonnen brood, or gebakken boterhammen ( lost bread, won bread, or baked sandwiches, as it was traditionally made from stale bread ) in Flanders, pain perdu in Wallonia

Occasionally, first-year birds from the first brood will assist in feeding the second brood.

of Natural Resources to obtain the specific rules and regulations for each river and tributary in the Province of New Brunswick prior to fishing, as special licenses, salmon " tags " and permits are required, and certain sections of tributaries and the main river are closed to fishing from time to time to protect salmon brood stocks.