Sentence examples for breeding mammals from inspiring English sources
In birds, rodents, and seasonally breeding mammals, pinealectomy (pineal gland removal) impairs reproduction.
In seasonally breeding mammals the timing of reproduction can be crucial for the development [4,23,38,39], sexual maturation [2,23], survival [4,22,41] and lifetime reproductive success [10,41] of juveniles.
The study further raises the interesting prospect that in social, colonially breeding mammals additional forces, such as social structure or feeding traditions, might bear on the genetic partitioning of populations.
Individual site fidelity has been recognised as important for social and genetic structuring in colonially breeding mammals and birds (e.g. [ 41- 43]) and has been observed in pinnipeds (e.g., grey seals, northern fur seals, Hooker's sea lions and Galapagos sea lions [ 30, 31, 44, 45]).
However, a circadian rhythm in melatonin, with a clear elevation during the dark phase, is required for transferring photoperiodic information in all seasonal breeding mammals [ 30].
The circadian rhythm of pineal melatonin, with an increased secretion during the night and low concentrations during the day, is mediating photoperiodic information to the neuroendocrine reproductive system in many non-tropical seasonal breeding mammals [ 3].
However, social or breeding status-dependent longevities have not been analyzed systematically either in other mole-rats except F. anselli or in any other cooperatively breeding mammal so far.
We investigate the costs and benefits of EGP in the banded mongoose Mungos mungo, a cooperatively breeding mammal in which within-group mates are sometimes close relatives.
"Soon, we hope to start breeding the mammals," says Governor Owens.
This hypothesis also received support in a recent paper contrasting female dispersal strategies across 47 plural-breeding mammal species [ 64].
Site selection was first conducted in 1 km grid units by selecting hotspots and irreplaceable sites using field records for eight groups of species (amphibians, reptiles, mammals, breeding birds, ants, butterflies, dragonflies and rare vascular plants).
