Sentence examples for lost offspring from inspiring English sources

I still recall watching a mother grebe with her humbug-striped chicks nestled among the feathers on her back, frantically searching for her third, temporarily lost, offspring.

PE cases are often reported to have caused dystocia requiring cesarean section and the syndrome is therefore associated with maternal welfare concerns and economic losses beyond those of the lost offspring.

Luckily for the tragic convoy of parents seeking their lost offspring along the "Mother Road", DS Kathy Mallory is on his trail, while simultaneously tracing the journey mapped out by her unknown father.

Females may also risk losing offspring if they are left unattended while seeking an extra-group mate (Hoffman et al. 2007).

Last year, I was fascinated and then heartbroken by a pair of red-tail hawks that built a precarious-looking nest over the West Side Highway, produced a trio of hatchlings, then lost their offspring before they got a chance to take flight, apparently to rat poison.

On day 9 and thereafter, cold exposure had a significant effect on litter mortality, and cold-exposed females lost more offspring and consequently raised smaller litters than females exposed to warm conditions (Table 1).

Previous studies have shown increased obesity in teenage offspring of women exposed to hyperglycaemia vs siblings of the same women who were not exposed to hyperglycaemia [ 16], but other studies in Pima Indians showed that this impact on offspring weight was lost in older offspring aged 20 24 years [ 17].

Altruism can evolve in a population if a potential donor of assistance can more than make up for losing C offspring by adding to the population B offspring bearing a fraction r of its genes.

Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring.

So if the female loses her offspring, she will not resume oestrus again until the next breeding season the following year.

And cheetahs are apparently able to compensate for the loss of their cubs, perhaps because females become fertile within 2 weeks of losing their offspring.