Sentences with phrase «of juvenile males»

Typically we see an abundance of juvenile males from the beginning of August to late September when the numbers increase.

To measure FoxP2 levels in area X of juvenile males, in situ hybridizations were performed following the methods of Teramitsu et al. (2004)[14].

Old fears that castration of juvenile male cats would predispose to urinary obstruction were disproven in the 90s.

Not exact matches

And in one group of savannah baboons, researchers found that males were more likely to support youngsters involved in daily squabbles if they were the genetic fathers of those juveniles (Buchan et al 2003).

According to the executive order, the governor — along with the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and the Office of Children and Families Services — will transfer female minors and all minimum and medium security classified male teens from state prison facilities where they're housed with the older population to a juvenile facility.

(Juvenile male forest elephants also develop tusks earlier, leading to mistaken reports of «pygmy elephants» in the region.)

When he castrated a group of juvenile roosters, the fowl became puny and meek: They lost interest in the hens, they failed to sprout abundant plumage and were smaller than normal males.

«This herd consisted of three adult females and eight juveniles of various ages, including a male that had almost reached maturity.

The sex ratio in the overall population is «nothing out of the ordinary,» with roughly one juvenile male for every four juvenile females, says study coauthor Michael Jensen, a marine biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in La Jolla, Calif..

The reason for the low juvenile hybrid survivability, the authors say, may lie in the lack of aggressiveness and ability to compete with purebred males for denning sites and in winning territorial battles.

This image shows adult males of the newly discovered species with juvenile females grasped onto abdomens — Cystococcus campanidorsalis.

An adult male hangs out on the web of a juvenile female, waiting for her to mature sexually.

Listen to a juvenile male Three - wattled Bellbird whose songs are «bilingual» — sharing features of the Monteverde and Panama dialects.

The pair — an adult female and juvenile male that may have been mother and son — appear to have fallen through a hole in the cave ceiling while possibly attempting to access a pool of water inside.

Off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the adult males and females and the juveniles all came back together around December.

«Based on previous work, we knew that during the summer the sand tiger population formed groups in the Delaware Bay, with male and female adults and juveniles all together in the same places, sometimes very close together,» said Danielle Haulsee, the paper's lead author and a doctoral student in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment's School of Marine Science and Policy.

The five whales beached on England's east coast this week are all juvenile males that were probably part of a bachelor pod, says Rob Deaville at the Institute of Zoology in London.

«While all other juvenile whale shark aggregations are dominated by males, we found a sex ratio of 1:1 at the site in the Red Sea.

A juvenile male whale shark gulps a mouthful of water under a fishing platform in Cenderawasih Bay.

The male with 75 per cent rainbow trout admixture mated with four known non-hybridized female cutthroat trout and produced the highest number of assigned juvenile offspring.

The tall individual may have been the dominant male of a larger group, the others smaller females and juveniles.

Discovered in 2009 at a site called Malapa and announced the following year, Australopithecus sediba is represented by remarkably complete skeletons of an adult female and a juvenile male.

This is in agreement with findings in juvenile male and female rats with low levels of gonadal hormones.

Lockwood and his colleague's work implies that Like some modern apes juvenile P. robustus males left their birth group to live on their own and that when older and larger, had to fight to gain a harem of their own.

This pattern of extended male growth, termed bimaturism, is common in apes that possess a harem - like group structure, with a single, dominant adult male, many adult females, juveniles and infants.

On a data sheet of orangutan skulls from the Berlin Museum I found measurements of a late juvenile male (about equivalent in dental eruption stage to Le Moustier), about 7 years old, and took two adults at random from the same sheet.

He fondly remembers watching an impressive and fearless high - ranking male, playful juveniles, and a chimpanzee in a patch of sunlight with a beatific look on its face.

Juvenile male zebra finches (n = 4 at 25d or n = 17 at 35d) were deafened by bilateral removal of the cochlea as described in Konishi (1965)[32].

The important issues raised by the film - centered on the cultural, racial and moral struggle that took place on the American frontier - are glossed over in favor of a juvenile fantasy of male bonding around the campfire.

Even if you don't like the 40 - year - old's humour, and many don't, you can at least appreciate its gleefully juvenile craft — scenes chockablock with sight gags, rapid - fire cutaways to hilariously absurd punchlines, painfully awkward pauses that last so long you eventually laugh, all of it wrapped in an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture that has made him a bro deity among the coveted 18 - to 34 - year - old male demographic.

A friend subsequently connected her with LA's Central Juvenile Hall, which, Hughes says, introduced the Unusual Suspects to a group of high - risk male offenders and what she calls a «whole new world» of gang and racial tensions.

Samuel let the two of us in because police were searching for a male juvenile, and neither of us fit the suspect's description.

He says that as long as schools fail to capture the attention of their otherwise brilliant Black male learners, we will continue to see large numbers of them joining gangs, winding up in juvenile detention facilities and dying in the streets.

Multivariable analysis indicated that age, sex, health status, and cat lifestyle and source were significantly associated with risk of seropositivity, with adults more likely to be seropositive than juveniles (adjusted odds ratios [ORs], 2.5 and 2.05 for FeLV and FIV seropositivity, respectively), sexually intact adult males more likely to be seropositive than sexually intact adult females (adjusted ORs, 2.4 and 4.66), and outdoor cats that were sick at the time of testing more likely to be seropositive than healthy indoor cats (adjusted ORs, 8.89 and 11.3).

A 28 - foot juvenile male gray whale that washed up on a remote Angel Island beach likely died of malnutrition, according to the Marine Mammal Center.

Weaned pups, juveniles and even adults of up to adult male size may fall prey to orcas.

Typical social units include: nursery groups (females and their most recent calves), mixed sex groups of juveniles and strongly - bonded pairs of adult males.

Currently, there are approximately 340 (32 adult males, 19 male sub adult, 77 adult females, 122 juvenile and 54 infants) Balinese long - tailed macaques that inhabit the Sacred Monkey Forest of Padangtegal.

Some of the highlights seen during this dive included: octopuses (including a juvenile one), Hermit Crab, Peacock - tail Anemone Shrimp, flatworms and also a male Epaulette Shark.

Supervised, counseled, tracked and monitored behavior of offenders at an alternative sentencing program for juvenile males.

Regardless of whether increased arrest rates represent a true increase in violent behavior among female adolescents compared with males or a policy shift toward arrest rather than alternative treatment of violent females, it is indisputable that the juvenile justice system is handling a rapidly growing share of girls.

In conclusion, it should be noted that, despite myriad differences between male and female offending, many of the primary causes are nevertheless similar, and many, such as victimization and trauma, have roots that extend into childhood.114 The most effective policies for reducing juvenile crime will be those that foster development in a safe and nurturing environment throughout childhood.

Research within clinical populations consistently finds that girls are more often abused than boys, although research focused on the broader population of community youth has not shown such gender differences in rates of physical maltreatment.72 Female offenders typically are abused before their first offense.73 Among girls in the California juvenile justice system, 92 percent report some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.74 Self - reported victimization rates among boys in the juvenile justice system are considerably lower, though boys may be more likely than girls to underreport certain forms of abuse.75 Some studies report abuse rates for males between 25 percent and 31 percent, while others report rates of 10 percent for sexual abuse and 47 percent for physical abuse.76 Closer comparison reveals that delinquent males and females tend to report different types of traumas as well.

Proportionally more girls were arrested for certain offenses, such as running away from home (59 percent) and prostitution and commercialized vice (69 percent), but most other types of arrests are more common for boys.3 As shown in figure 1, between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s, juvenile arrests for violent crime increased significantly, with male arrest rates rising 75 percent and female rates rising almost 150 percent.

Like juvenile detainees nationwide, approximately 90 % of the CCJTDC detainees are males, and most are racial / ethnic minorities.3 The CCJTDC population is 77.9 % African American, 5.6 % non-Hispanic white, 16.0 % Hispanic, and 0.5 % other racial or ethnic groups.

Prevalence and Odds Ratios (ORs) of Comorbidity Among Male Juvenile Detainees With Affective, Substance Use, Anxiety, and ADHD or Behavioral Disorders by Age *

Prevalence and Odds Ratios (ORs) of Comorbidity Among Male Juvenile Detainees With Affective, Substance Use, Anxiety, and ADHD or Behavioral Disorders by Race / Ethnicity *

The juvenile - depressed group had a higher proportion of males and exhibited a pattern reminiscent of externalizing behavior, characterized by more perinatal problems and somewhat higher rates of comorbid conduct disorder, attention deficit - disorder, crime by parents, and temperamentally undercontrolled behavior.

A study of male juvenile serious offending, individual risk and protective factors, and neighborhood context

The prevention of violent behavior by chronic and serious male juvenile offenders: A 2 - year follow - up of a randomized clinical trial.