Guarding males are thought to forage less during the rut than do nonguarding males, possibly leading to greater fitness costs. |
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The topi rut typically lasts 1.5 months and takes place during the long rains between March and May. |
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Male reindeer, known as bulls, shed their antlers after the autumn rut and they are no longer dominant. |
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The Hawks are stuck in a rut of being bad enough to miss the play-offs but not bad enough to end up with a franchise player in the draft. |
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One could settle for the same old brand every time, but to get stuck in a fragrance rut is a cardinal sin. |
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Those scripts had occasional moments of truth but were stuck in a rut of creaky sentiment and melodramatics. |
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However, training with just one or two people can put you in a rut, make sure you roll with as wide a cross section of the club as possible. |
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We haven't had much new snow, so the trails were not that wonderful deep fluff, but rather a rut akin to those left on the Oregon Trail. |
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At one particularly dry location, surface water had ponded in the 45 mm rut, effectively preventing the drying mechanism postulated. |
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Older bulls lose their antlers in December, following the rut, while the younger males may keep theirs as late as February. |
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The annual rut, or breeding cycle, peaks in deep South Texas during late December, and cold conditions will coincide with the movement. |
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For the duration of the rut, territorial bulls within smelling distance of cows will barely pause long enough to munch a mouthful of grass. |
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Males and females live separately, except during the rut, which is in September. |
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Her father had often warned her to stay clear of male animals in rut, for they were dangerous. |
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In a conversational style, Dale Carnegie offers practical advice and techniques on how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding. |
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In Mixed Feelings Paul plays Vernon, a middle-class man stuck in a suburban rut. |
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The carriage jolted through a particularly overeager rut, knocking my still-tender back against the seat and jerking me back to the present. |
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The wheels of her buggy had struck a deep rut on the shoulder of the road, and the vehicle was leaning at a precarious angle. |
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I didn't realize what a depressive rut I'd been in for the last couple of months. |
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Though your particular rut must lead to the cannon's mouth, you are cheerful and impavid in it as a man just and firm of purpose should be. |
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Get out of your rut of voting for the aesthetically pleasing contestant with no vocal talent, and pick the ones who can sing. |
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The museum, stuck in its own magnificent rut of monographic shows on modern masters, knew it was losing the next generation. |
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He was supposed to have kept her awake, not ravish her, not rut her like some animal. |
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He's 38, unmarried and stuck in a very deep rut also inhabited by his nagging, humourless girlfriend Ruth and a cat he detests. |
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During the rut in October and November you can hear the stags belling or roaring. |
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This is not unlike getting wheels stuck in mud, and spinning them until the rut is deeper. |
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Some people in the chattering classes have characterised it as dull and in a rut but that is far from the truth. |
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I knew I had it in me to try harder but we were both stuck in a rut and using drugs. |
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During the rut stags lost some 200 lb in weight, and can literally drop with exhaustion. |
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Kidney mass thus increases in males from the stressful rut period in early winter to the summer months. |
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Its rigid nature provides a stable surface that will not rut, washboard or shove, and also minimizes the potential for potholes. |
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The knife in my hands slipped when the wagon hit a rut, nicking a rogue gouge from the piece of wood I was absently whittling down to a toothpick. |
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My very earliest memories are of picnics with my mother beneath the great trees in Richmond Park in London, of red deer stags belling in rut, of lightning and thunder. |
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So what may finally shake the UK stock market out of its rut? |
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At senior level, permanent staff who feel stuck in a rut often enter the contract market looking for a change in their job role and a better quality of life. |
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Apart from the distinct rutting behavior, one of the most pronounced features seen in many ungulates is the difference in habitat utilization before the rut season. |
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Then as the rut nears, the tips get ivoried from dragging through sandy scrapes while the bases get darker from pine pitch during rubbing and mock fighting. |
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At the rear of the craft struts integral to the ship's docking facilities were bent and crumpled as it hit stern-first, gouging a huge rut through the earth. |
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If a person feels in a rut at home or at work, there are new and different things to be learned and experienced. |
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I don't know if I'm in a rut, I don't know if this is part of what we hiv positive women go through. |
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AsanOMSpractitionerwithapracticeoneissomethingofalonewolf,andwith time there is a tendency to become somewhat stuck in a rut. |
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If you feel like you are in a rut with your business, evaluate how passionate and enthusiastic you are. |
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Iscleef amusing to imagine the other as a sort of buck in rut fantasizing, drool dripping before the ankle offered. |
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He had been standing at the back of the float surrounded by presents when the front wheel dropped into a deep rut and he was thrown to the ground. |
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It seems quite clear that the system is stable enough to wallow in its rut but not strong enough to pull itself out. |
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Today, to get out of this rut, class and corporate interests must be opposed insofar as they are not compatible with modern reformism. |
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During the breeding season, or rut, the cow moose entices a mate with a nasal-toned bawling. |
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The spectacular rut involves sparring and chasing among the males for mating privileges. |
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A pickup in the eurozone will soothe fears that the region is stuck in a rut of consistently sluggish growth. |
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This would be the best way to pull this project out of the rut it is currently stuck in and make real progress. |
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Stone skeleton mixtures are inherently rut resistant, their smooth surface profile minimises the noise generated at the tyre interface. |
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This indicates that the early life rut resistance of the epoxy materials would not be dissimilar to that of standard asphalt mixtures. |
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The family budget gets you out of the rut of conventional living by opening up new vistas to explore and occupy. |
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Since the first studies of caribou in Québec-Labrador, herd size has always been described according to the size during the fall rut. |
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The United States and France are the first to buy this new rut measurement system. |
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The ones with the big antlers are not even afraid of humans when they are in rut. |
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If one ski parts itself on an icy rut, the bad skier promptly sits down. |
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Have you ever fallen into a similar creative rut where you needed to be reinvigorated? |
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During the rut, even usually friendly rams may become aggressive towards humans due to increases in their hormone levels. |
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Don't get in a rut giving the same kind of recognition all of the time. |
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The tracks all start off sounding great but once you get about ninety seconds into it, things seem to get stuck in a rut and start repeating themselves. |
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That is important, because our country still seems stuck in a rut that, if we deregulate everything and have no standards, we will actually do better. |
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It'd got to the point where the musicians were really stuck in a rut. |
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I welcome the agreement on proceeding with care in accession negotiations with Turkey, and it is important that we send a signal to the people of that country, but the rest of the agenda seems to be stuck in a rut. |
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Use of trite expressions shows that the writer is in a rut. |
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It's no secret that the industry is stuck in a bit of a rut. |
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People, departments and organisations can get stuck in a rut, carrying on with using familiar procedures and approaches even when their shortcomings are well known. |
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It's a way to remain motivated and avoid getting stuck in a rut. |
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Many cities are also using concrete pavements at hightraffic and high-wear intersections and bus stops, where asphalt has a tendency to rut and shove. |
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We follow a vehicle which breaks its front wheel axle in a rut then we take several tracks and after some hairpin bends the taxi cannot go further. |
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Learn practical tools to help your Executive deal with hidden agendas, differences of opinion, unspoken concerns, and what to do when the Executive is stuck in a rut. |
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A season-linked rut can occur as a result of a seasonal food shortage: alternation of a dry and a wet season with a great feed scarcity in the dry season. |
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With supply stuck in a rut due to the time and costs involved in developing new capacity, increased demand is fuelling rises in prices as well as volumes. |
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The fairways and the greens were ungroomed, in comparison with a typical course at home, and we sometimes had to play around a rut or a bare spot or a half-buried skeleton of a sheep. |
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Well, here's a social project for you: lift us out of our rut. |
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It is mainly used for high grade roads, city roads, airports and squares problem like road protuberance, wave and rut tracks, and roughcasting on low frictional road. |
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Most, but not all, of the unbred does will mate a month later, during peak rut. |
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Dominant stags follow groups of hinds during the rut, from August into early winter. |
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However, blacktail buck hunting is usually best late in the season, after leaf drop has occurred and the rut has started. |
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In feral sheep, rams may fight during the rut to determine which individuals may mate with ewes. |
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We are faced with few options to get out of this self-created rut. |
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We advocate an action plan to get us out of this rut. |
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Males of the two species differ in that buck goats acquire a unique and strong odor during the rut, whereas rams do not. |
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David Dinkins, the city's most recent Democratic mayor, was a decent man with the mark of doom on him. Ever since Mr Giuliani ousted Mr Dinkins in 1993, New York's left has been stuck in an unruly rut. |
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They rut from January through April, decreasing their food intake dramatically. |
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Tufts of hair are most commonly found on the ground in November and December, showing that encounters are heavily concentrated around the rut. |
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As the shredder is mobile it may well be manoeuvred on less stable ground. That is why we have kept ground pressure as low as possible in order to prevent tyre sinkage or rut formation. |
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My sight rattled like the teeth of an Alabaman riding out the 11th hour of a Saskatchewan dawn-to-dusk rut hunt. |
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All this leads us to believe that the dairy sector is far from reaching an agreement that will take it out of the rut in which it now finds itself. |
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At the end of the day, however, the reform of the treaties was at a standstill, Europe was stuck in a rut, its unity had been tested, and you gave it another chance. |
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Shorn of those excess costs, and shorn of the bungling management that had driven them into a deep rut, they could re-emerge as vibrant and competitive companies. |
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Overusing painkillers can spin migraine patients into a rut, spurring more headaches that in turn require more pain medication. |
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The landline was mewling again in the kitchen, obliging Pell Munnelly, woke now for good, to climb from the cozy rut of her bed and pad downstairs in bare feet. |
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Stuck in a rut which was difficult to avoid after several years of studios and tours, the foursome fell to three when Dimitri left for marriage and fatherhood and, perhaps, boredom. |
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This meant that France's banking system created less value added in 1994 than it did in 1993, which illustrates the depths of the rut into which it had fallen that year. |
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There may be as many as 100 species of bacteria living in the hairs of the tarsal gland that change ordinary urine into smelly rut chemicals. |
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What does he think, that we're setting him up, that he'll ease his truck along the dirt road, high-center it in a rut, and then get jumped and die defending his pizzas? |
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In late autumn or early winter after the rut, male reindeer lose their antlers, growing a new pair the next summer with a larger rack than the previous year. |
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The full-heads.. always herd with the Ducks, excepting in the rut. |
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During the mating season, called the rut, mature stags compete for the attentions of the hinds and will then try to defend the hinds they attract. |
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The male dromedary camel has an organ called a dulla in its throat, a large, inflatable sac he extrudes from his mouth when in rut to assert dominance and attract females. |
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If challenged during the rut, a buck will emit a clicking sound. |
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During the rut a buck following a doe will make a weak whistle or squeak. |
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In a further trial, one week later, the machine overturned in a rut. |
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After the rut, females form large herds of up to 50 individuals. |
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As a sub-plot, we have the confrontation between Coolmore and Godolphin, like two great bull moose clashing antlers at the rut to establish supremacy. |
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Actually, Interest in scrapes picks up during the post rut because unbred does and female fawns come into estrus and advertise that fact at the scrapes. |
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Sika males are territorial and keep harems of females during the rut, which peaks from early September through October, but may last well into the winter months. |
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