This reproduction rate means that population growth is around three times slower than savannah elephants.
The number has crept up, to perhaps 1,200 now, but the animal's slow reproduction rate works against it.
(That gives Hong Kong a "net reproduction rate" of just 0.547, in the language of demographers).
Her symbol was the rabbit because of the animal's high reproduction rate".
General Naumann said that Mr. Sainovic "expressed his concern that the reproduction rate of the Kosovo Albanians was much higher than of the Serbs".
(That is some time after its neighbour, Macau, which has a higher reproduction rate, but a much smaller population).
The agency said that recent research indicates that changes in ocean conditions could also be affecting the eel's reproduction rate.
The point is illustrated by a smaller, well-known survivor of the New Zealand blitzkrieg, a small flightless bird that has a low reproduction rate but is hard to find: the kiwi.
Godfrey H. Holmes Withernsea, East Riding For any infective disease, the basic reproduction rate is the number of new cases produced by a single case in a susceptible (ie unvaccinated) population (Simon Jenkins, 17 October).
Forest-dwelling elephants are likely to face extinction far more quickly than previously assumed because their sluggish reproduction rate cannot keep pace with rampant poaching and habitat loss, a new study has found.
p is the parasite reproduction rate by an infected cell.
