The Indo-Pacific C.O.O.L. animals include the Banggai cardinal fish, which is part of a breeding program at the aquarium designed to save the species from extinction.
It has the additional appeal of a breeding colony of Royal Albatrosses inside the city limits, which is not something you can say about Featherstone.
The legion, it is alleged, had got far enough with the plans to contemplate establishment of a breeding farm for germs.
The performance of a breeding horse's progeny is the real test, but, for horses untried at stud, the qualifications are pedigree, racing ability, and physical conformation.
The determination of the effective population size of a breeding population is necessary for studies of population growth rates and of gene flow.
It wasn't until the late 1990's that a resurgence of eagles began, as a result of a breeding program run by Peter Nye, an environmental conservation department biologist.
Depending on what time of year you are visiting, you might choose a beach or overlook with a view of a breeding colony of elephant seals (December to March) or the gray whale migration (January to April).
Zoo staff had been optimistic that Tian Tian, who arrived as part of a breeding pair with male panda Yang Guang in 2011, would have a successful pregnancy after being artificially inseminated again in early May.
Effective population size, in genetics, the size of a breeding population, a factor that is determined by the number of parents, the average number of children per family, and the extent to which family size varies from the average.
This is the sound of male humpback whales "singing", part of a breeding display.
It is all a far cry from the £100m price tag Frankel has as he continues the first season of a breeding career where his services earn £125,000 a time.
