Sentence examples for mating areas from inspiring English sources

The study details how the scientists dropped hydrophones in streams, first to record the fish's natural soundscape in mating areas and then to capture the reverberating sound created by semi-trailer trucks crossing over nearby bridges.

When she removed alpha males from eight randomly selected mating areas, seven of the eight beta buddies began acting like alphas for a while--but they did not maintain this status into the next breeding season and thus did not have an automatic advantage over other male birds within the same mating territory.

This assumption is justified for most regions (especially remote areas) because: (1) specialised areas of high conservation value such as calving or mating areas and migratory corridors have not been identified; and (2) density estimates are regarded as robust surrogates of habitat utilization [38].

Housing: Gestation and mating areas, as well as farrowing pens, had slatted flooring.

With mating areas of a diameter of 22.5% and more of the length of the environmental gradient, no speciation was observed.

Sexually non-active males are typically not attacked, as they have not yet developed morphological secondary sexual characters, do not display the behavioural repertoire of mature males, or do not enter mating areas [ 1].

Adding an attraction to the individuals' mating area during the mating season also improved the model.

In conclusion, this is the first study to demonstrate that taking lactating sows to a detection mating area for 15 min of daily, physical boar contact resulted in a high incidence of lactation ovulation within 22 days of parturition.

By moving shrimp boats to deep water, away from the turtles' shallow mating and nesting ground, we can protect sea turtles and spawning white shrimp that share the turtle's mating area.

In nature, a lek is a communal mating area where males gather to engage in flamboyant courtship displays, and females stroll by to judge the performers and presumably choose the fittest, most resourceful or most amusing of the lot.

BE consisted of 15 min of daily, full physical boar exposure in a detection mating area.