Sentence examples for kill the offspring from inspiring English sources

The researchers said female lions, which also hunt together, avoid another behavior practiced by females of some other species: they do not kill the offspring of other females.

Correction: January 3 , 2004 Saturday An article yesterday about plans to kill the offspring of a cow that was found to have mad cow disease misstated the role of Washington State agriculture officials.

As federal investigators search for cows that were imported from Canada with the cow that was found to have the nation's first known case of mad cow disease, Washington State officials have begun a process that will kill the offspring of the sick cow.

Men are endowed with a cortex, a superb invention that can teach us, among other things, to read, write, empathize and show restraint unknown to lions and tigers, who sometimes kill the offspring of their rivals.

However, many infants do not reach sexual maturity; high-ranking adults sometimes harass or kill the offspring of lower-ranking monkeys to eliminate competition to their own offspring for an opportunity to remain with the group upon reaching maturity.

Above this threshold frequent droughts kill the offspring and inhibit emergence.

In many species of mammals, males will sometimes kill the young offspring of other males.

Hence, killing the offspring would not hasten reproduction," she said.

The women sometimes killed the offspring of their liaisons with the sealers.

Jane Goodall reported in the 60's that some female chimpanzees in Tanzania killed the offspring of their rivals to stay on top.

Remarkably, in the movie's crucial drama — Noah's intention to end the human race by killing the offspring of his son Shem (Douglas Booth) and his daughter-in-law Ila (Emma Watson) — Aronofsky grafts onto the tale of Noah one of the most harrowing and morally troubling Biblical stories, Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son, Isaac.