Sentence examples for few pup from inspiring English sources

Although there were too few pup weights per treatment group per age to evaluate statistically, the averages combined by category of delivery time suggest increased pup weight with delayed parturition.

"They grow slowly, reach sexual maturity relatively late in life and only give birth to a few pups.

Compared to fish, female sharks give birth to relatively few pups, and these pups take a long time to reach maturity.

Some sharks do not reach maturity until they are more than 10 years old and even then have only a few pups, so the stock cannot reproduce rapidly enough to make up for overfishing.

And then there are a few pups lucky enough to have an official contraption that makes solo fetch a little easier.

A few pups around the country decided to celebrate the pope's visit in their own way -- by dressing up like him.

They tend to have an alpha male in a group, and he tends to breed with a single female who will usually deliver a few pups; the other members of the group won't breed.

The stories I heard of the few pups rescued from this bloody trade brought me to tears, as I imagined one of my own two dogs, Lisa and Natalie, facing such an abominable fate.

Homozygous loss of function of Gpr126 in the mouse results in mid-gestational or perinatal lethality (depending on the allele), with a few pups surviving to 1-2 weeks of age (Waller-Evans et al., 2010; Monk et al., 2011).

Once you've narrowed your search down to a few pups you like, ask the breeder if you can interact one on one the pups.

Ringed seals are a relatively long-lived species with lifespans of up to 43 years, but as snowfall decreases in the Arctic, fewer pups will reach their teenage years.