Sentence examples for few offspring from inspiring English sources

Few offspring want to follow them into farming.

As lovebirds go, they love this new nest, and have even thought -- double blush -- of feathering it with a few offspring.

One interpretation of the demographic transition, then, is that the abundance which accompanies development initially enhances the instinct to lavish care and attention on a few offspring.

Large, slow-growing creatures, such as whales, are also in danger, as are sharks and skates, which reach sexual maturity late and have few offspring.

Shark populations cannot tolerate intensive fishing because sharks have few offspring and often do not reproduce until they are over 10 years old.

Peasants have generally favored large families as insurance against losing children; with affluence, parents try to buy their way out of risk (and the trouble of raising large families) by investing a lot in a few offspring.

The rich, demographers have shown, are different from the rest of us: they generally have fewer offspring.

Nutrition clearly affects the number of offspring produced, with malnourished females laying fewer eggs or giving birth to fewer offspring.

That means 300m fewer mouths to feed, but also 300m fewer workers and 300m fewer offspring to lavish Confucian respect on their forebears.

Children who lived more than 20km from their mothers produced significantly fewer offspring than those who lived in the same village.

And relatively speaking, they are older when they first reproduce, they spend more time raising young and they have fewer offspring at a time.