Newts Sentence Examples

As a youngster I used catch newts in the dike.

In fact, there are thousands of inviting opportunities for newts to leave the lake if they wanted to do so.

The green and blue, so frequent in frogs and newts, are merely subjective colours, due to interference.

In the typical newts (Molge) of Europe, the males are adorned during the breeding season with bright colours and crests or other ornamental dermal appendages, and, resorting to the water, they engage in a lengthy courtship accompanied by lively evolutions around the females, near which they deposit their spermatozoa in bundles on a gelatinous mass, the spermatophore, probably secreted by the cloacal gland.

Other newts, and many salamanders, whether terrestrial or aquatic, pair, the male embracing the female about the fore limbs or in the pelvic region, and the males of such forms are invariably devoid of ornamental secondary sexual characters; but in spite of this amplexation the same mode of fecundation by means of a spermatophore is resorted to, although it may happen that the contents of the spermatophore are absorbed direct from the cloaca of the male.

The lush growth provides a safe nursery for developing amphibians including toads, frogs and smooth newts.

No native amphibians are known and any frogs, newts or toads found have been introduced.

If you have a garden pond for newts and other amphibians, do not stock the pond with fish.

Outside the breeding season newts live on land in moist damp areas.

Are we really going to allow our council to let ponds be filled in that have rare newts in (Northgate Village )?

Newts spend much of their year on land, however, toward the end of winter adult newts spend much of their year on land, however, toward the end of winter adult newts return to water to breed.

Newts will eat frog tadpoles, but take toad tadpoles less readily.

There is a pond and wildlife area which attracts various species including crested newts.

We then moved to the garden pond and found newts of many types and a huge Great Diving Beetle.

The endangered and protected great crested newts had made the abandoned holiday camp their home.

Great crested newts are best suited to ponds which are slightly alkaline.

Smooth and palmate newts rarely live beyond around five years.

Huge sums are spent on roads, many planned with b 10 e smooth newts thrive.

Spittle Mere also has a breeding colony of crested newts while the hawthorn scrub provides cover for nesting songbirds.

At other times of the year the pools and pumping stations were filled to the brim with Great Crested Newts.

The adults prey on small animals such as frogs and will also enter water to catch tadpoles, newts and even small fish.

Newts will eat tadpoles, but then so do other tadpoles - that's life in the pond!

Aquatic salamanders and newts are the only adult vertebrates which can regenerate a limb, and they can regenerate other structures as well.

I ca n't work out what species they are as they did n't look like the pictures of smooth newts I can find.

Newts will eat tadpoles, but then so do other tadpoles - that 's life in the pond !

Other animals to consider for your water garden might be birds, frogs, newts or turtles.

The first category embraces many aquatic newts, the second nearly all the Ecaudata, the third the rest of the Caudata, and the fourth the Apoda.