breeding behaviour

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breeding
noun[U]
uk
/ˈbriː.dɪŋ/us
/ˈbriː.dɪŋ/
the keeping of animals or plants in order to breed ...
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behaviour
noun
uk
/bɪˈheɪ.vjər/us
/bɪˈheɪ.vjɚ/
the way that ...
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(Definition ofbreedingandbehaviourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There are summaries ofbreedingbehaviour, dietary requirements, hibernation, behaviour, and adaptation and evolution.
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Little is known about itsbreedingbehaviour.
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Thebreedingbehaviourof bristlebirds is poorly known.
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Thebreedingbehaviourof this genus is very unusual.
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Thebreedingbehaviourof both painted berrypeckers is poorly known.
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Thebreedingbehaviourof the long-billed murrelet is very unusual.
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Thebreedingbehaviourof the flufftails has not been observed for many species.
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Thebreedingbehaviourof the masked finfoot is almost entirely unknown.
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Only the adult plumage has been described, and thebreedingbehaviouris unrecorded.
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This is done to study thebreedingbehaviourof the selected plant.
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The similarities between the two species presumably arose because of the same strong environmental constraints onbreedingbehaviour.
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For most wood quail, information has mainly come from specimens, andbreedingbehaviourand habits are little known.
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The only species about which anything is known about thebreedingbehaviouris the olive-crowned crescentchest.
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Their physical characteristics andbreedingbehavioursuggest that they may be the most primitive of the swallows.
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Seventeen further species for which somebreedingbehaviourhas been observed within the region are covered more briefly.
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The evidence for the differentbreedingbehaviourgradually built up, and by 1938 there was no doubt that the two mutations were distinct.
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Even in relatively well-known species thebreedingbehaviourcan be poorly known; for example the nest of the ocellated antbird was first described in 2004.
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Little is known about itsbreedingbehaviour, although it is known to nest in tunnels dug into the banks of streams and rivers.
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This genus has been placed in a number of families; at present it is placed tentatively with the estrildid finches due to similarities inbreedingbehaviour.
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