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Even if he did fertilise the egg of a non-paired female it would not survive as it takes two adults to raise a single chick.

Look for those who enhance you, not inhibit you; who fertilise your mind and put the wind beneath your wings.

Blocking a river with a dam blocks the movement both of fish upstream to spawn and of silt downstream to fertilise fields.

Blocking a river with a dam also blocks the movement of fish upstream to spawn and the movement of silt downstream to fertilise fields.

The programme, a dramatisation of the epic journey sperm undertake in their quest to fertilise the egg, reveals other fertility secrets.

They stressed they had made no attempt to fertilise human eggs with the sperm.

For the world's farmers hoping to fertilise their crops, perhaps not so much.

sneaky male A small, non-dominant male fish which attempts to fertilise eggs by darting suddenly onto the nest site. Also called sneaker.

Students first viewed a PowerPoint presentation illustrating how sperm fertilise eggs.

One widely discussed idea, which the Royal Society's correspondents re-examine, is to fertilise the oceans with iron.

To fertilise them the native women had to transport human manure from the city of Fuzhou.

The discovery suggests that increased CO2 in the atmosphere could fertilise extra growth in the mature forests.

He plans to fertilise his fields with manure, rather than chemicals derived from oil and natural gas.

Sperm from several males must therefore compete to fertilise an egg.

recycles uneaten fish feed to fertilise crops.

In the early 20th century, the world's growing population couldn't find enough ammonia to fertilise all its crops.

"But how does the sperm get in to fertilise the eggs? " she asked.

Female spiders can do this because they store sperm for a period of days or weeks before they use it to fertilise their eggs.