Sentence examples for prospective breeding from inspiring English sources

At midsummer in the nesting colonies, there is a considerable arrival of immature birds familiarizing themselves with prospective breeding territories.

Males defend their prospective breeding sites by aggressive interactions against intruding individuals.

For the trials we used two 200-litre tanks equipped with sand and six flower pot halves (10 cm diameter) as prospective breeding cavities for the pair.

In this situation, we predicted that fish raised with older conspecifics would behave more submissively in general, and in particular would show more submissive behaviour towards the dominants in the vicinity of a prospective breeding cavity.

In experiment 2 the behavioural frequencies shown by the test fish towards the dominant pair, both in the entire tank and in the vicinity of the prospective breeding cavities, were too small to analyse them separately per 15 min recording.

Accelerate is headed to Lane's End Farm, where he'll have a meet and greet with prospective clients for breeding and a little time off.

Internal fighting — particularly between Islamic Sate and Nusra members — has turned off some prospective recruits, is breeding disillusion among fighter ranks, and has drawn the condemnation of a number of Islamist scholars.

One consequence of this is that as the prevalence increases with age the heritabilities may become higher as they begin to express a more complete spectrum of liabilities, however this is of only academic interest since delay in hip scoring will drastically reduce the genetic progress through fewer prospective parents scored by breeding age and/or longer generation intervals.

Using breeding values, several prospective sires or dams would be ranked by hip breeding values [13] and then selected according to many other traits deemed important to a particular breeder.

There's plenty that prospective Australian dog owners can do to support an ethical dog breeding industry.

This prospective cohort study sampled 90 young Thoroughbreds consigned from eight farms, originating from three provinces representative of the South African Thoroughbred breeding demographic to a sales complex.