Sentence examples for before the mating from inspiring English sources

Antlers finish growing before the mating season and are used as weapons and shields in combat or as display organs in courtship.

Company workers remove the nests in late March and early April, before the mating season begins, and again in the fall, typically October, well after any eggs are hatched, officials said.

The yearling female left her natal home range before the mating season, in January and settled 61.2 km to the North, where she successfully bred.

However, a new study published online today in Biology Letters suggests that opossums sometimes live in groups and may form pair bonds with mates before the mating season starts.

These bouts are typically observed just before the mating season.

In the months before the mating season, the size of the male's testes increases by a factor of three or more before spermatogenesis occurs.

Note that both donor mating-type cassettes, HML and HMR, were replicated at approximately the same time and before the mating-type locus MAT.

For each trial a female was placed in the experimental terrarium one hour before initiating the mating experiment, allowing her to release draglines, which are important stimuli for the male in mate search, and for inducing courtship behaviour and gift construction [ 30].

The mating period included the behaviors displayed immediately before, during, and after the mating, ending when the female was no longer receptive and the interactions between male and female stopped.

Pack agrees that much work remains before scientists understand the mating system.

Females were anesthetised with CO2 before and after the mating trial in order for pictures of their external genitalia to be taken.