Sentence examples for fail to breed from inspiring English sources
In the warmest years, birds can fail to breed altogether and large numbers of adults can die of starvation.
How could such seeming selflessness evolve, when it is exactly those individuals that are behaving altruistically that fail to breed and thereby pass their selfless genes along?
In years of scarcity, birds form a greater proportion of the diet and female least weasels may fail to breed.
In years without sufficient rains, many birds fail to breed and those that do produce fewer offspring.
Age-specific survival and proportion of breeding females are Bernoulli processes, in the sense that each female can be considered a 'trial' with a binomial outcome (live or die, breed or fail to breed).
The pandas failed to breed in 2012 but the zoo is using thermal imaging technology to monitor the pair this time - a world first.
Consider some small reptile that fails to breed because a flood creates a barrier across its habitat that it cannot cross and there are no available mates on its side of the barrier.
The first accurate census in 1917 found 25 pairs and the last pair failed to breed around 1955.
We selected those S individuals randomly, resampling with replacement, and calculated all matrix elements according to the fates of the selected individuals (whether they lived or died, bred or failed to breed and, if they bred, the number of offspring they produced, drawn from the relevant likelihood distribution).
One pair failed to breed within 15 days and was removed from the experiment.
