Lily waited four weeks before the ducklings appeared.
The ducklings are hatched from the first of April up to about the first of August.
The next day, the cat saw the duckling and began to growl.
We have a new brood of seventeen ducklings just hatched this afternoon.
Well, the three ducklings swam on, thinking how nice it was on the water, with the warm sun on their backs, when they suddenly came to the end of the pond.
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Attempts to establish infections in candidate experimental hosts other than ducklings were not successful.
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The tale of the uglyduckling(or the coming of age of second language acquisition research).
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While some adult echinostomes were recovered from ducklings, very few hosts were infected and too few eggs were recovered from faeces to support further studies.
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Attempts to establish infections in experimental hosts other than ducklings were not successful.
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Four of the five patients reported direct exposure to chicks or ducklings originating from the previously implicated hatchery.
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Sympatric speciation in animals : the uglyducklinggrows up.
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The ducklings shed miracidia and schistosomules were found in the lungs of a mouse.
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The number of worms is the mean value (decimals values rounded off) from three infected ducklings.
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Experimental infections of ducklings were marginally successful.
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Which crumbs were the ducklings fighting for?
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Outbreak of salmonellosis associated with chicks and ducklings at a children's nursery.
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The offset is determined, not by a decline in the following response itself, but by the emergence of a competing fear response that causes theducklingto flee novel objects.
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I am not sure whether it makes the arrangement for limitation change from an uglyducklinginto a swan, but there is certainly some improvement.
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We also hear a good deal about agriculture, the uglyducklingof politics.
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Two of her ducklings simply could not get over the verge.
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