Sentence examples for whether breeding from inspiring English sources

The commission will investigate whether breeding colonies can be established within the next decade for all species used in research.

The 10 National Trust rangers living on the islands must dangle their bare fingers down 60,000 puffin burrows in the next two months to determine whether breeding pairs have fallen after the worst puffin "wreck" for 66 years.

Therefore, we specifically focused on determining whether breeding failure in bearded vultures is related to the ingestion of veterinary drugs from stabled livestock carrion, as documented in other avian scavenger species [12].

To determine whether the breeding herds showed a 'fission' or 'fusion' response (i.e. whether breeding herds came together or dispersed, respectively) following the fire, we compared the number of matriarchs (where one matriarch indicates the presence of one herd) seen together in the three-month period pre- and post-fire.

An important question arises whether breeding in μG environment affects growth or not.

Response to selection was then evaluated by testing whether breeding resulted in a significant change in the binomial proportion of observed phenotypes as evaluated with exact binomial tests.

If density-dependent competition has dictated variation in clutch size and productivity, the priority of future management should be to determine whether sufficient breeding opportunities are currently available to insure long-term recovery or whether additional sites are required to buffer the population from extinction.

It is not clear whether the breeding population around the Zhoushan islands mixes with the one on Mazu.

"The hooper goes for particular birds, whether for breeding purposes, for his own collection, or for blackmail — 'If you want your bird back, you better cough up the cash.' " Netters, meanwhile, sweep up birds indiscriminately, delivering them to brokers, who pay two to five dollars a head.

Galdikas hopes to learn whether the breeding cycle of the orangutans corresponds to that time period.

Evolutionary biologist H. Martin Schaefer of the University of Freiburg in Germany and colleagues wondered whether the breeding separation had evolutionary consequences.