Sentence examples for captive trial from inspiring English sources

Four families of European beavers (Castor fiber) have spent the last five years in an official captive trial where they have successfully produced young (known as kits), built lodges and dams, in one case causing a freshwater loch to grow up to five times in size as a result.

Hundreds of fallen willow and birch trunks criss-cross the captive trial site, with distinctive pencil-shaped stubs remaining amid a network of canals, paths, small dams and 10 ponds that a pair of beavers introduced in 2011 have built, along with an increasingly elaborate lodge where they sleep during the day before emerging at night to work.

In our second, long-term captive trial, we found that the sheepskin lining used in these bats collars became matted, lost resilience over time and caused moderate to severe ventral and lateral neck ulceration in 3/10 bats.

The observation on Day 10 of the first captive trial (after the intentional rotation of the mock PTTs on Day 9) that all five flying foxes had re-orientated the PTT to the dorsal aspect, established that flying foxes were able to reposition the PTT, presumably for comfort.

To examine the efficacy of a Pac I restriction digest to remove predator amplicons, two treatments were applied to samples 1 4 from the captive trial; 1) restriction digestion of DNA prior to PCR then immediate cloning, and; 2) restriction digestion of DNA prior to PCR, then further restriction digestion of the PCR product prior to cloning.

Such premature mortality might plausibly result from secondary infection of lesions such as those seen in our captive trials, or from increased vulnerability to hunting.

We sequentially developed three collar designs using results from field and captive trials to inform subsequent modifications, and incorporating Microwave TelemetryTM PTTs.

Deterrence of natural populations of herbivores has only rarely been observed in previous studies, because most have used captive trials and tested for reduced herbivore performance as the measure of induction, sometimes finding no effect on specialists [16].

Interestingly, our captive trials demonstrated both premature rivet loss (in one of five bats after 7 days, the rivet having been incorrectly fastened) and the ability for bats to slip out of the collar when it was caught on a snag (two of ten bats, seven weeks post-collaring).

Sequences were also generated and deposited for the remaining prey items not on GenBank for the captive feeding trial and for some likely prey items for Sarasota Bay dolphins.

These tadpoles were produced from a captive breeding trial of originally wild-caught L. pipiens adults that were captured in pristine areas near Ottawa, Ontario.