Sentences with phrase «during the mating season»

This is pretty much what you hear during mating season.
[10] This is important during the mating season when the seals do not leave the beach to feed, and must conserve body moisture as there is no incoming source of water.
Did you know that when washed and the membrane removed egg shells are wonderful for female birds during mating season.
For best results, avoid getting bucks with horns, because they can be very aggressive during mating season.
Behavioral Benefits Although these cycles vary from animal to animal, an intact female cat will generally go into heat for four or five days every three weeks or so during the mating season.
Until spaying and neutering pets became available and accessible around the 1930s, keeping intact cats indoors was messy business during mating season.
Once your female cat reaches puberty, the difficult job of keeping her inside the house during the mating season would be added to your list.
This is the spot where the sea turtles can be seen during mating season.
The teeth and claws could be for symbolic threat displays during mating season.
Wild animals: It can be a jungle out there on the roads, especially during mating season.
The lizards, which can grow to 2.5 metres long and are the largest in the world, often battle over females during mating season in August, but Gudkov failed to witness an attack.
Normal increases in vocalization occur during mating season when female cats are in heat and male cats compete for access to them.
Hissing is a common vocalization that indicates defensive behavior and is often used during feeding, fighting, and repeatedly by females during mating season (San Diego Zoo, 2016).
Male platypuses have venomous spurs on their hind legs that they use in competition with other males during mating season and, when needed, for self - defense.
Or drop by during the mating season, from September to December, to see the males wooing the ladies.
The disease seemed to spread during mating season, when female devils fight off suitors and males compete for females.
The dull color indicates either a female or a non-breeding male, since breeding males turn a jaunty blue during mating season.
The crucial discovery came when males began to migrate between groups during the mating season.
But these males mate for life, reuniting with the same female year after year during mating season.
Although the two groups aren't geographically separated during the mating season, the migratory division has led to a rapid genetic and physical divergence between them as though they were reproducing kilometers apart, the researchers conclude.
Male giant pandas bleat during the mating season, and some bleat longer than others.
In the same experiment with the Ruddy Ducks, the males» penises didn't grow any longer than they usually do during mating season, but one of the males maintained his length for twice as long as his rivals did.
Nearly 81 % of all cub mortality occurred during the mating season of the study period, the scientists say, and «most, if not all» of these deaths were due to infanticide.
When the researchers examined where the successful mothers lived during the mating season, they found that they stayed close to human settlements, at a median distance of 783 meters, they report today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Male black - and - white snub - nosed monkeys appear to have taken a lesson from Revlon — they go for the rouge - lipped look during the mating season.
The median distance of successful females to human habitation during the mating season was 783 meters.
Snow leopards are generally shy, even within their own species and will only seek out other snow leopards during mating season.
Ginseng provokes excitement, enhances endurance, and in lab studies with female rats there was even an increase in their ability to attract male rats during mating season.
Until 1970, scientists had no clue that the birds flew inland to the old - growth forest during mating season to lay a single egg.
Most frequently, spraying is associated with un-neutered male cats who tend to spray during mating season.
However, the surprising fact is that your kitten litter could have different fathers since the queen could mate with different tomcats during the mating season.
Males get aggressive and smelly if not desexed and will tend to urinate or mark everywhere during mating season.
Female lays up to 250 to 300 eggs onto the soft underside of the male's tail during mating season, usually beginning in October or November.
Samana, on the northeast coast, looks over Samana Bay, which hundreds of whales descend upon during mating season.
The national marine sanctuary in Monterey Bay is cracking down on drones flying over nursing seals and their young during mating season.
[8] Also, the large proboscis, which is considered a secondary sexual characteristic, helps males assert dominance during mating season.
The Komodo dragon is usually a solitary animal except during the mating season but they can and do form groups for hunting and feeding.
Male frigatebirds are most commonly known for their red throat pouch, which are inflated to attract female frigatebirds during the mating season.
Turtles are often spotted here during mating season, ask us about renting a DPV (scooter) to search for them!
Cathedral is one of the most popular dive sites on Aliwal Shoal, known for the haven of ragged tooth sharks during the mating season.
You will enjoy sitting on your lanai and watching the whales frolic during their mating season.
My short visit to the sanctuary came during the mating season (September to December) and, as a result, males were engaging in remarkable call - and - response bellowing.
And I still intend to see hammerhead sharks gathered off Cocos Island during mating season, when all the females are swimming together and the males are fighting to make their way into to hook up with the alpha females.
«Drilling near breeding areas would be prohibited during mating season, and power lines would be moved away from prime habitat to avoid serving as perches for raptors who prey on sage grouse,» notes Bette Grande, a research fellow at the Heartland Institute and a former North Dakota state legislator.
Tinbergen studied male stickleback fish who would naturally attack a rival male that entered their territory during mating season.
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