Sentence examples for breeding at a from inspiring English sources

Smith, for her part, notes that Burbank had the good fortune to practice his breeding "at a time when the vast majority of people agreed that improving nature was, in fact, a very good thing to do".

This year marks the time when rhinos are breeding at a rate lower than the poaching rate.

Sadler argued that alcoholism and "feeblemindedness, insanity, and delinquency" were hereditary traits and that those who possessed them were breeding at a much faster rate than "superior human beings".

If density-dependent competition drove the declines I describe, both clutch size and fledgling productivity should be negatively correlated with the number of pairs breeding at a site (i.e., colony size).

To ameliorate this effect we fostered out aviary offspring to wild house sparrows breeding at a local field site at the University of Idaho's Sheep Center in Moscow, ID (46°43'N 116°59'W).

Males were used for breeding at a significantly earlier age than females.

The cane toads have been breeding at an alarming rate.

13 Locusts Swarm West Africa Locusts in West Africa are devouring crops and breeding at such a rate that they are expected to create a substantial number of new swarms across the region this month, according to two reports.

Following successful breeding at the facility, a group of birds was released on Sado Island on 25th September 2008, with further reintroductions in subsequent years.

Rather, the mice that leave the most progeny are those that devote resources to breeding at as early an age as possible.

Some passerines that breed in the Arctic, for example, drop many more flight feathers at once (sometimes becoming briefly flightless) in order to complete their entire wing moult prior to migrating south, while those same species breeding at lower latitudes undergo a more protracted moult.