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The researchers wanted to know whether female leafworms would use the clicks to decide where to lay eggs, one of the most important choices in their lives.

At the time, scientists believed she was about 5 years old, since that’s the youngest that albatrosses can lay eggs.

Because raising a chick requires so much time and energy, many albatrosses lay eggs every other year.

His herd of 400 cows are milked three times a day on behalf of a major milk supplier and his 18,000 hens lay eggs for a leading supermarket.

From BBC

An adult fruit fly is a strong flier that’s been known to travel 30 miles in search of food and sites to lay eggs, giving it the ability to infest new areas quickly, according to the food and agriculture department.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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