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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a fortnight, the whole of the female's back is rippling with the movements of the tadpoles beneath.
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Gurdon transferred cells from the intestinal lining of tadpoles that had already begun to feed.
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Not far away, in an old ditch called the Newtie, Ludo and I would come to catch tadpoles and newts.
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Now only one lake supports tadpoles.
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Over the Easter term, the inky tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation marks.
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The extent to which spadefoot tadpoles become cannibalistic varies between the different species and according to ecological circumstance.
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Their tadpoles can exploit bodies of water not excessively populated with competitors, and some are adapted to very restricted niches.
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Western spadefoot toads burrow into the wash bottom, emerging to produce another batch of mosquito larvae-eating tadpoles during the summer rains.