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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. Mole and