Sentence examples for mass of pups from inspiring English sources

Of the few studies that have investigated summer kill rates for wolves [3], [5], [19], only Sand et al. [5] attempted to account for the smaller mass of pups by calculating kill rate as kg of prey per kg of wolves living in the pack.

Ocean warming redistributes prey decreasing foraging success of females, which in turn leads to lower weaning mass of pups.

In any case, the temporal link between temperature changes, effects on prey, and the weaning mass of pups is unclear.

SOI helps define the strength and duration of ENSO cycles but it does not predict weaning mass of pups well except during unusually strong or long El Niños.

Mean weaning mass of pups, consequently, fluctuates from year to year and reflects the impact of cyclic warming on the availability of elephant seal prey in the northeastern Pacific in that year.

"It was a mass evacuation and a lot of pups and dogs were injured, with people leaving on bikes and cars, and the confusion of dogs wanting to follow their owners and getting hurt," said Owens.

Thus, it is unlikely that the reduced daily milk output of primiparous females was a consequence of the smaller initial mass of their pups relative to those of multiparous females (Table 3).

In this species, both the body mass and condition of pups at weaning have a significant influence on post-weaning survival with larger, fatter pups having a greater probability of survival to 1 yr of age [25].

Consequently, the longer average lactation length of multiparous females was not sufficient to result in a significant difference in the relative mass or condition of pups at weaning (Table 3).

There was no relationship between weaning mass and body composition of pups of either primiparous (r2 = 0.230, p = 0.083) or multiparous females (r2 = 0.004, p = 0.830).

The body mass and huddling ability of pups change dramatically in the period from birth until weaning.