The flock has had excellent breeding success despite minimal culling, and nearly every ewe has two lambs a year.
Sidney Frances Bateman's "Self," treated to a wry revival at the Metropolitan Playhouse, may have been written in 1856, but its high society remains amusingly recognizable: a world of misers and socialites, dandies and ditzes, parvenus and social climbers, whose supposedly excellent breeding excuses their excesses.
Austen lived in a world where eligible bachelors boasted vast estates, Oxbridge educations and possibly a stint in the Navy or the chambers; single ladies were expected to speak several languages, sing and play piano, and be capable of running the home and raising children of equally excellent breeding.
These activities promoted artificial temporary or permanent water collections that are excellent breeding sites of An. darlingi, the most important malaria vector identified in this region [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [20], [21], [22], [23].
Later called "cutting contests," these intense challenges between dancers were an excellent breeding ground for new talent.
The mild winter meant that more eggs survived than usual, which only added to the excellent breeding conditions created by the wet spring and summer".
Cisterns, tarps, barbecues, garbage cans and plant pots that fill with water are excellent mosquito breeding grounds.
Despite the excellent progress in breeding for higher levels of provitamin A, even higher levels are needed to account for postharvest degradation, which can result in a 70% reduction in provitamin A content in a 4- to 6-month storage period.
Due to excellent captive breeding and reintroduction programs, in 2011, the oryx was moved to "Vulnerable" with a world wide population of ~7000.
Because many organisms with mixed breeding systems are excellent dispersers [ 18- 21], breeding systems with even a small amount of sexual reproduction should suffer homogenization of ecologically differentiated lineages [ 11, 12, 15, 22].
Experience from progeny-testing indicates that the mating of popular bull sires that have high estimated breeding values with excellent dams does not guarantee the production of offspring with superior breeding values.
