Sentences with phrase «kill cubs»

Male lions will kill the cubs of another male, and the mate with the female (because the killing of the cubs will cause her to go into heat).

The mating season brings about violent tendencies in adult males, who regularly kill cubs to trigger sexual receptivity in mothers who would otherwise come into heat only after raising their cubs to independence.

If a new male takes over a pride, but has previously mated with one of the females, he may be less likely to kill the cubs because they might be his.

Adult male bears are known to kill cubs that are not theirs — and sometimes the mother that defends them.

So that is why when a lion takes over a pride of females the first thing he does is kill the cubs.

So if he succeeds in overthrowing the older males, he often kills their cubs to make room for his own.

Not exact matches

It might, for example, be killed as a cub by marauding hyenas or die of disease or drought.

They surprised a female grizzly and her three cubs feasting on a freshly - killed elk and the grizzly mother instantly reacted to protect her cubs.

The females turn the cubs loose far too early and they are killed, or starve to death, before they can fend for themselves.

Governor Andrew Cuomo proclaimed yesterday the fourth annual Animal Advocacy Day in the State of New York, but the only thing officials in Albany did was kill — sorry, «euthanize» — a black bear cub.

Disapprove Alaska Predator Control Rule — Vote Passed (225 - 193, 12 Not Voting) The joint resolution would disapprove the rule issued by the Interior Department on Aug. 5, 2016, that prohibits certain predator control practices in national wildlife refuges in Alaska (such as the taking of mother bears and their cubs, the killing of wolves and their pups at den sites, and aerial shooting).

Although content, this cheetah mother was still on high alert since she had a cub nearby and her kill could attract other predators.

When a female cheetah caught but didn't kill a Thomson's gazelle calf and waited for her cubs, Grégoire Bouguereau guessed what was about to happen.

«It's important to reduce the chances of adult males encountering cubs since the males will kill young bears,» Clevenger adds.

That could have repercussions for females with cubs, the researchers note, because it may lead to smaller, more vulnerable cubs being led out into the open — where humans or other bears could kill them.

When new males take over they kill any existing cubs.

I dare you to approach a female bear and her cubs... you had better be prepared to shoot and kill her, because she will be coming to kill you.

The dominant male — the alpha wolf — rules over all, the dominant female comes next, and all others usually give way in eating from the kill or producing the next generation of cubs.

Baboons will hunt down and kill Leopard cubs if they can find them.

IN THE WILD: In the animal kingdom, it isn't unusual for some species to attack and kill, and even eat, the young pups, cubs, etc..

Hunters are permitted to kill nursing sows, their cubs, young bears.

Bear kill wolf cubs.

Other predator species will actively hunt cubs, so they are driven away by the lions, especially if they get too close to kills or their families.

Imagine the alternative reality in which the wolf pack makes a kill, but the cubs don't wait their turn to get at that meat.

But Republicans have wielded its powers broadly in the last year, using it to overturn Obama - era regulations ranging from rules making it harder for the mentally ill to get guns, to preventing the killing of bear cubs in Alaska.