Sentences with phrase «females reach sexual maturity»

Females reach sexual maturity at 4 - 8 weeks and have about 35 offspring per year.

Mating and Life Cycle Females reach sexual maturity at 7 - 9 years and males around 10 years.

Once a female reaches sexual maturity, her body's hormones stimulate a monthly cycle in which about 400 follicles die and roughly 20 follicles begin to mature.

Not exact matches

The asexual females, regardless of the number of genomic copies they possessed, grew faster and reached reproductive maturity quicker than the sexual females, the researchers discovered.

«For marine animal populations to thrive and support sustainable fisheries, the males and females of each species need to reach sexual maturity, and deliver their eggs and sperm in the right place and at the right time.

The new life expectancies — 40 years for females and 73 years for males — suggest great whites reach sexual maturity later than previously thought, making young deaths more devastating to the species.

Testifying to this new entente cordiale, the Sabah Wildlife Department has agreed to send semen collected from Tam to Cincinnati Zoo to attempt artificial insemination of a young female when she reaches sexual maturity.

Small rodents and guinea pigs reach sexual maturity at a very young age, so males and females should be housed separately to prevent pregnancies.

In more detail, both male and female kittens can reach sexual maturity between four and six months, so it is entirely possible a kitten could impregnate his mother.

Female guinea pigs reach sexual maturity at four to five weeks old and males at eight to nine weeks.

He is probably a stray — what typically happens is that someone had him as a kitten but they didn't get him neutered, as he got older and reached sexual maturity he became less interested in being a homely pet and instead began to roam further afield in search of female cats or to take part in territory battles with other unneutered male cats.

Screening is initiated, therefore, once healthy dogs and bitches have reached sexual maturity (between 10 - 14 months in males and during the first anestrus period for females following their maiden heat).

Female rabbits are generally old enough to be spayed between 4 and 6 months; this is when they first reach sexual maturity.

Since neutering eliminates the instinctual need for urine marking in males and pregnancy in females, it is advisable to spay or neuter a puppy before they reach sexual maturity at six months of age.

Sexual maturity, most females now fertile and able to produce offspring although they may not have reached their full growth.

Sexual maturity is reached at 10 months, and the females usually breed within the first year.

The female of the great white shark only reaches sexual maturity at 12 years of age and has few offsprings.