Sentence examples for without a mate from inspiring English sources

One pair tends to be supported by a territory, although birds without a mate have been seen sharing a territory with a mated pair.

OFFSPRING A solitary avocado tree towers over the foot of the garden but, without a mate, bears no fruit.

The birds spend up to the first 10 years of their life living in groups, without a mate, so the ability to recognize friends and foes is crucial.

Unfortunately, Knut is now overweight, without a mate, and spends much of his time standing on his hind legs playing to a gallery of adoring zoo visitors.

Olga, the compulsively loving woman in "Angel", enters it as soon as she finds herself without a mate, describing it in her homely way: "You see an upright bottle, say – or rain, or a peasant in a cart.

Deborah acknowledged that she does wonder how her pursuit of her past may have affected her present, her life without a mate or children that is inhabited by a memory of a sister.

"The evolution of hypodermic insemination and a needle-like copulatory organ to try and inject sperm into the body of another individual in the context of sexual conflict is interesting enough in itself, but the fact that these worms apparently turn that weapon on themselves, and can thereby reproduce even without a mating partner, is truly fascinating," Ramm told NBC News.

All individuals had a recovery period between trials of at least one hour (either when the experiment finished after 10 minutes without a mating or when it did after the spermatophore was manually removed).

Also, the Ion Torrent platform currently employs fragment lengths of 100 or 200 bases; without a mate-pair type library protocol, these insert sizes are too short perhaps to enable accurate de novo assemblies such as that demonstrated using ALLPATHS-LG for mammalian genomes using Illumina data [ 25].

During observation, the focals in the control group were placed in closed containers without a mating partner.

In heterothallic fungi, strains must be of opposite mating type for sexual reproduction and morphogenesis, while homothallic species, generally thought to evolve from heterothallic ancestors [[ 5] and references therein], reproduce sexually without a mating partner.