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Larger context for LACK in Corpus USbrown_UKbncw/US_brown.txt
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  Definite information on the growth of senile individuals is lacking.
ANACONDA:
At birth, this species varies considerably in size.  
A brood of twenty-eight born at Brookfield Zoo, near Chicago, ranged in length from 22 to 33-1 2 inches and averaged 29 inches. Lawrence E. Griffin gives measurements of nineteen young anacondas, presumably members of a brood, from "South America"; the extreme measurements of these fall between the lower limit of the Brookfield brood and its average. Raymond L. Ditmars had two broods that averaged 27 inches. R. R.