Abalones are subject to various diseases.

Abalones have been identified as one of the many classes of organism threatened with extinction due to acidification of oceans from anthropogenic carbon dioxide, as reduced pH erodes their shells.

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They are weaned after six months and reach sexual maturity at about 20 months.

In some works, the protagonist is able to reach out and help others after having achieved maturity.

Growth typically slows once the toads reach sexual maturity.

At one point in its development it was intended for use with Apple's Newton computer, but the Dylan implementation did not reach sufficient maturity in time, and Newton instead used a combination of C and the NewtonScript developed by Walter Smith.

Females reach sexual maturity at 8. 5 months, males at 16. 5 months.

However, landscape art did not reach greater level of maturity and realism in general until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period ( 907-960 AD ).

Hellbenders reach sexual maturity at about five years of age, and may live thirty years in captivity.

Females reach maturity at 2 to 3 years of age, males at 3 to 4 years.

Juveniles take three years to reach maturity.

The females maturely slowly and require decades to reach sexual maturity.

Panga are slow to reach sexual maturity, with a minimum population doubling time of 4. 5 – 14 years.

Most horses reach full physical maturity at about age five, and ponies are at their peak of athleticism and training at around age 6 or 7.

Scorpions typically require between five and seven moults to reach maturity.

Nanotechnologists in particular believe that their work will likely fail to reach a state of maturity until human beings design a self-replicating assembler of nanometer dimensions.

The males reach sexual maturity as early as seven years, but do not typically mate until fully developed at around 15 years of age.

In captivity, they reach maturity in three to four months, and breed readily, the females giving birth to about 20-40 young at a time.

Female hippos reach sexual maturity at five to six years of age and have a gestation period of 8 months.

Males reach maturity at around 7. 5 years.

As each individual culm goes through a 5 – to 7-year life cycle, culms are ideally allowed to reach this level of maturity prior to full capacity harvesting.

X. laevis takes 1 to 2 years to reach sexual maturity and, like most of its genus, it is tetraploid.

Bulls reach sexual maturity at the age of two, while cows do so in their third year.

Young are weaned after about six months and reach full maturity at the age of two to three years.

The males reach maturity between 4 – 12 months old, while females reach maturity between 8 – 12 months.

Does each tentacle of the octopus of City Government reach out and lash at whatever it dislikes or considers an annoyance??

Thus, food so processed might reach more remote markets and permit the consumer to enjoy more produce at peak freshness and palatability.

The second walk through the heart of Rome should be taken after lunch, so that you will reach the Pincian Hill when the soft light of the late afternoon is at its best.

He was deep in water, but at least they could not reach him there.

They would reach him at almost exactly the same instant.

Bake and Shirl Winter, on separate telephones, could not reach him at any conceivable location in Los Angeles, nor could they secure any clear-cut information regarding his efforts.

This enables the user to carry conversations eye to eye ; it also enables the operator to reach items at higher levels.

The Lauberhorn and is the more strenuous downhill race at and poses danger to racers who reach within seconds of leaving the start gate.

In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I, Fleming described an ingenious experiment, which he was able to conduct as a result of his own glass blowing skills, in which he explained why antiseptics were killing more soldiers than infection itself during World War I. Antiseptics worked well on the surface, but deep wounds tended to shelter anaerobic bacteria from the antiseptic agent, and antiseptics seemed to remove beneficial agents produced that protected the patients in these cases at least as well as they removed bacteria, and did nothing to remove the bacteria that were out of reach.

" It is highly probable that the correct information about the sulphonamide did not reach the newspapers because, since the original sulphonamide antibacterial, Prontosil, had been a discovery by the German laboratory Bayer, and as Britain was at war with Germany at the time, it was thought better to raise British morale by associating Churchill's cure with the British discovery, penicillin.

By moving the lowest 8 KB of RAM outside of reach of the ULA, the CPU could always access it at 2 MHz.

The Ababda extend from the Nile at Aswan to the Red Sea, and reach northward to the Qena-Quseir road, thus occupying the southern border of Egypt east of the Nile.

For the simple case where the direction of the light beam along the line SE is perpendicular to the motion of the observer then only light emitted at an angle equal to the arc cosine of the ratio of the observer's speed to the speed of light will reach the telescope.

These effects, often several of them at a time, made it very difficult for World War II era aircraft to reach speeds much beyond 800 km / h ( 500 mph ).

The line would enable Russian oil arriving at the Bulgarian oil port of Burgas to reach Greece ’ s Mediterranean port at Alexandroupolis.

The current can reach 7 – 8 knots at this point.

They are proficient at cheating at ventiuna ( Spanish for twenty-one ), and state that the object of the game is to reach 21 points without going over and that the ace values 1 or 11.

However, response to the company's products at the CP / M-82 show in San Francisco showed that a U. S. company would be needed to reach the American market.

Since the Universe has a finite age, and light travels at a finite speed, there may be events in the past whose light has not had time to reach us.

However, United maintained their aggregate lead to reach the last four and were in jubilant mood as they left to catch their flight home, thinking of an important League game against Wolves at the weekend.

It lies at an elevation of 1132 m ( 3717 ft ) on the right bank of the Ubaye River, and is surrounded by mountains which reach peaks of over 3000 m ; the tallest of these is the Needle of Chambeyron at 3412 m. Barcelonnette is situated 210 km from Turin, 91 km from Nice and 68 km from Gap.