Sentences with phrase «of earlier breeding»

This gave the researchers a good idea of the importance of earlier breeding for collared flycatchers, since when they bred earlier, they successfully fledged more nestlings.

As a result of this early breeding, a vast number of dogs still possess the herding instinct that was bred into them generations ago.

The problem of proof, which hangs over the discussion of any early breed history, is compounded in this case by the extreme secrecy of the breeders of pit dogs.

Partially because of these early breeding efforts which frowned on «man biters,» pit bulls gained a reputation for their trustworthy nature with humans.

Not exact matches

Peregrine is one of the early adopters of a new breed of profit - analyzing software that promises to transform the dark art of pricing into an exact science.

Early adopters are a very special breed of customers and they mean everything to a business.

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early - stage investment strategy in Southern California.

The implications of this is that churches (and companies, and cultures / countries) can breed, rear, train, install, and revere narcissists; or, alternately, we can intervene, ideally early and often.

Sometime in late October, early November 2001, the tone of that discussion switched, and it became: What's wrong with the Islamic world that it failed to produce democracy, science, education and its own enlightenment, and instead created societies that breed terror?

To see the argument in its pure form, though, it is necessary to look instead at Bentham's argument in favor of infanticide, or, as he calls it, «the power of breeding - up or not during early infancy.»

it is necessary to look instead at Bentham's argument in favor of infanticide, or, as he calls it, «the power of breeding - up or not during early infancy.»

After making cheese in the early 2000s before turning his hand to brewing beer on Tasmania's Bruny Island, one cheesemaker has taken the next step of establishing his own dairy farm using heritage breeds.

Mr Smallwood said ABS had been an earlier adopter of genomic technology, in which breeding values were calculated from the results of a DNA test, particularly in having its genetics tested on the Australian system.

While the project is in its early stages, Mr Whetstone said SA could become the breeding program facility of the nation, and potentially export the sterile fruit flies across the globe.

«There was also a boom in the breeding of native birds such as nankeen night heron, cormorants and the first breeding of the internationally protected Eastern great egrets since 2011, following the delivery of Commonwealth environmental water to the Yanga National Park in early 2015.

Kathrin was an amazing, rare breed of the very early pioneers of the sustainable farming movement.

It is not known whether this breeding was enhanced by the delivery of environmental water in early spring to support plants on the riverbank, or whether carp spawned in the Murray and moved into the Lower Goulburn River.»

Participatory varietal selection (PVS) is a simple way for breeders and agronomists to learn which varieties perform well on - station and on - farm and to obtain feedback from the potential end users in the early phases of the breeding cycle.

Early in the year, knowledge of the game is just developing, meaning the KOT is the breeding ground for future stars of the league, college and International players.

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Each year, more than 250,000 visitors interact with costumed historians, experience up - close demonstrations of early American trades, and meet heritage breed farm animals.

Your membership also provides the Village with the support necessary to care for our historic buildings, priceless collection of early American artifacts, heritage breed animals and heirloom gardens as well as our expert costumed interpreters and outstanding educational programming for both the general public and school children alike.

Spring is the time of year cats begin breeding and this year's early warm weather is causing animal shelters to prepare ahead of schedule.

Scientists discover important endangered Right Whale breeding ground off coast of Maine: «In early December, surveyors counted 44 right whales in one day about 70 miles south of Bar Harbor, Maine, in an area known as Jordan Basin.

A mock tombstone symbolizing the death of NY's thoroughbred breeding industry sits in a hearing at the NYS Assembly earlier this year.

'» And at the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, every proposal by anyone doing research, from undergraduates through senior professors, must include a hazard analysis that is approved by the college's director of engineering safety, David Breeding, as I reported earlier this year.

A new University of Washington study, with funding and satellite data from NASA and other agencies, finds a trend toward earlier sea ice melt in the spring and later ice growth in the fall across all 19 polar bear populations, which can negatively impact the feeding and breeding capabilities of the bears.

A probing portrait of early plant - breeding technologies unearths surprising roots of genetic engineering efforts

Parents of treated also went on to breed earlier in the subsequent season, giving their offspring in the following year a better chance of survival.

«If this is indeed a breeding program, it would be the earliest evidence of dog breeding for any purpose,» Perri says.

Proponents of the theory suggest that an exceptionally heavy but unstable breed of neutrino existed in the very early universe.

In early August, ABS Global simultaneously introduced a six month old bull named Gene and announced it had formed a new subsidiary, called Infigen, to «commercialize applications of cloning technologies in the cattle breeding, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and xenotransplantation fields.»

Those early dogs didn't have thousands of years of intense breeding selection to sculpt them into the image of modern dogs.

Seasonality of bird migration is shifting in response to climate change and, as a result, birds are arriving at their northern breeding grounds earlier in the spring.

Darwin had requested two years earlier the bellows (lungs) of pigeons and poultry breeds from the Malayan archipelago; since then, Wallace had been in touch with the already well known private scholar.

The «sunbathing» finding was an early result of a study to identify migration and breeding patterns.

How bonobos developed this kind of social tolerance without being bred for it may provide an interesting parallel to what happened early in human evolution.

Overall, the study's data from mitochondrial DNA — different from nuclear DNA in that it helps scientists trace maternal lineages — reveal that population structure in humpback whales is largely driven by female whales that return annually to the same breeding grounds and by the early experience of calves that accompany their mothers on their first round - trip migration to the feeding grounds.

The sexual behavior in question was noted in early November 2015 by co-author Alexandre Bonnefoy while filming on Yakushima Island south of Japan during the macaque breeding season.

Early breeds showed six color variants, of which three were already present in pre-domestic horses.

The high frequency of the mutation for gaitedness in the early Icelandic horses indicates that the Icelandic settlers preferably bred gaited horses — apparently the comfortable gaits proved to be particularly suitable for long distance travel through rough terrain.

They borrowed an analytical technique used in agricultural breeding (but never before applied to the study of wild populations) to determine that squirrel babies born earlier in the spring thrive and reproduce at a higher rate than squirrels born later.

An unknown hominin species that bred with early human ancestors when they migrated from Africa to Australasia has been identified through genome mapping of living humans.

The results of this study provide measures associated with normal cognitive aging in Border collies, and thus could be used as a basis for breed comparisons as well as early recognition and treatment of certain cognitive deficits.

During the early spring, males of this species defend breeding territories.

And timing is important too — if they breed earlier, they increase their chances of being able to have more pregnancies before the end of the breeding season.

Although they remain a relatively common bird, the species has been declining rapidly since the early 1970's and several researchers have suggested that fragmentation of forests in breeding grounds are playing a major role.

Their research has revealed one genetic mechanism for hybrid vigor, a property of plant breeding that has been exploited to boost yield since the early 20th century.

According to her model, early in their evolution humans added cooperative breeding behaviors to their already existing advanced ape cognition, leading to a powerful combination of smarts and sociality that fueled even bigger brains, the evolution of language, and unprecedented levels of cooperation.

Though the marine mammals were captured from the wild in the early years of the program, since the late 1980s, the program has bred its dolphins in - house at its training facility in San Diego and buys young sea lion pups from marine parks, said Mark Xitco, who heads up all the marine mammal training and care for the program.