Sentence examples for first mating from inspiring English sources

Since not enough females became pregnant during the first mating session, additional time-delayed matings were necessary to reach a statistically representative number of animals.

On average, a female's first mating lasted 2 minutes, and subsequent matings lasted only about half that.

However, copula duration was again shorter in re-pairings of the same individuals 1 h after their first mating.

Goats were mated until the end of estrus and uteri were flushed by cervical route seven days after first mating.

The first mating was between the oldest northern white, Sudan, and a southern white rhino named Aramiet.

Ed Helms provides the internal monologue for a 5-year-old Adélie penguin referred to as Steve, who is about to embark on his first mating season.

Embryos were collected between 7 and 8 days after the first mating and blood samples were taken to determine progesterone (P4) concentrations.

The study was assigned as a cohort design and the aim was to study gilts/sows from their first mating as gilts until mating after third parity.

The proportion of irregular return to oestrus (>24 days after first mating) was higher (P<0.01) in primiparous sows than in multiparous sows (69% versus 61%).

He set aside 100 that had mated once (for a snail can make darts only after its first mating) and 100 that had not.

The benefits of immature mating were twofold, researchers concluded: not only did it "rarely end in cannibalism", it also increased male spiders' chances of successful insemination – and even copulating with a second female as they usually survived their first mating.