breeding season
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbreedingandseason
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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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season
noun[C]
uk/ˈsiː.zən/us/ˈsiː.zən/
one of the four periods of the year; spring, summer, autumn, ...
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(Definition ofbreedingandseasonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We dissected 50 shoaling males caught before thebreedingseasonand 48 males caught during thebreedingseason.
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Males caught during thebreedingseason.
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Interestingly, this was at the start of thebreedingseason.
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Transmission occurred predominantly during and just after thebreedingseason.
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In general, males establish and defend territories during thebreedingseasonbefore the arrival of females.
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Timing of thebreedingseasonmay also be influenced by marketing alternatives for the calves.
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This was done after thebreedingseason, when the birds had left their nests.
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Other variables (size of area,breedingseason, number of points, time of the day) were standardized.
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Six experiments were carried out with animals collected during thebreedingseason.
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Bulls struggle with one another for joining a nursery school in thebreedingseason.
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This absence of food during thebreedingseasonmight account for the scarcity of locusts.
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No female was observed weaning two litters in the samebreedingseason.
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Fourteen weeks is roughly equivalent to the length of abreedingseason.
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The number of bird species attending flocks was greater during the dry season, declining thereafter during thebreedingseason.
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An independent measure of the mainbreedingseasonwas obtained from assessments of breeding status of adult females and males.
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We separated a random sample of the shoaling fish caught before thebreedingseasonfor the experiment described below.
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During a singlebreedingseason, a terminal male can build several nests successively and so ensure several reproductive cycles.
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The high frequency of infected males in shoals suggests that most infected males remained in shoals during thebreedingseason.
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This was done under optimal and semi-natural conditions during periods about equivalent to abreedingseason.
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Males of territorial avian species can often be found singing on high perches during thebreedingseason, claiming their territory.
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