Sentence examples for small litter from inspiring English sources

And on May 16, residents will clear out the remaining small litter and plant flowers and shrubs along the path.

In general, precocial young are born after a relatively long gestation period and in a small litter.

Such a procedure is very laborious due to a long breeding cycle (5-6 yeand) and a small litter size (1 per birth) in macaque monkeys.

Compared with that broader vision, "it seems like an awful lot of expectations have come down to a pretty small litter," said Representative Neil Abercrombie, a Democrat of Hawaii, who heads a House subcommittee that oversees the Army.

On the contrary, large MMSW mounds are not found in the dives carried out on the Calabrian margin, where only small litter clusters (typically <2 m2) can be observed, being composed by up to few tens of items (Fig. 4c).

According to the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, the tatu-bola faces a particularly hard struggle to recover its population because of the animal's low metabolic rate, small litter size, prolonged parental care and long gestation periods.

Small-breed bitches usually produce small litters.

After the age of seven, bitches are likely to have small litters and experience problems in delivering the puppies.

The Florida panther, it turned out, is a North American cougar whose kinked tails, heart defects, small litters and short lives were consequences of prolonged inbreeding.

Mothers give birth every 12 to 18 months, producing small litters of one or two individuals after a 188-day gestational period.

Wolves bear relatively large pups in small litters compared to other canid species.