The Weald has its own breed of cattle, called the Sussex although it has been as numerous in Kent and parts of Surrey. |
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As for the species, there is a tendency for natterjack toads to breed here. |
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Considerable variety exists in the family and species may breed and feed in marine, freshwater, or terrestrial habitats. |
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They breed on every continent, including the margins of Antarctica, and are found in the high Arctic, as well. |
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Say what you will of dachshunds, their peculiar shape makes them the easiest breed of dog to trip over in existence. |
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Some large sea terns, including the sooty and bridled terns, are four or older when they first breed. |
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I am hoping, maybe because I am roasting out here, that it is to accommodate some breed of shady tree. Like a bluegum or a paperbark. |
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People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed. |
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The annals of cynology make no further mention of the breed until 1901 when a combined Rottweiler and Leonberger Club was formed. |
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Mackerel are prolific broadcast spawners and must breed near the surface of the water due to the eggs of the females floating. |
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Broadly, livestock refers to any breed or population of animal kept by humans for a useful, commercial purpose. |
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However, some livestock are not enclosed, are fed by access to natural foods, and are allowed to breed freely. |
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The breed in the valleys had been improved, principally by sheep from Shropshire. |
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Beaches in Southeast Asia, India, islands in the western Pacific, and Central America are where Green sea turtles breed. |
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Many tubenosed birds breed in the southern hemisphere and migrate north in the southern winter. |
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In general, seabirds live longer, breed later and have fewer young than other birds do, but they invest a great deal of time in their young. |
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Most strikingly, many species breed tens, hundreds or even thousands of miles inland. |
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Females can often breed until age 40, after which comes a rapid decrease in fertility. |
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Harbor seals move down from eastern Canadian waters to breed along the coast of Maine in May and June, and return northward in fall. |
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Since the land they breed on is fixed, females return to the same sites for many years. |
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Pinnipeds that breed on fast ice tend to cluster together more than those that breed on pack ice. |
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Lundy is home to an unusual range of mammals, almost all introduced, including a distinct breed of wild pony, the Lundy pony. |
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Currently, there are no signs that any of these species breed in the islands, and so those seen in the water are usually migrating. |
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Some fish prove difficult to breed in captivity and can be caught in the wild as juveniles and brought into captivity to increase their weight. |
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With scientific progress more species are being made to breed in captivity. |
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Seafood species that grow quickly and breed young, such as anchovies and sardines, are much more resistant to overfishing. |
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Many seabirds breed on the island, including Arctic terns and Arctic skuas. |
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He was so famous for this, the Romans used to say he could breed oysters on the roof of his house. |
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They are also popular to hobbyists who want to breed marine species in captivity. |
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Most gulls breed once a year and have predictable breeding seasons lasting for three to five months. |
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Auks also tend to be restricted to continental shelf waters and breed on few oceanic islands. |
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The terns are birds of open habitats that typically breed in noisy colonies and lay their eggs on bare ground with little or no nest material. |
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Most terns breed annually and at the same time of year, but some tropical species may nest at intervals shorter than 12 months or asynchronously. |
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Most terns become sexually mature when aged three, although some small species may breed in their second year. |
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All species breed readily in zoos, which is potentially useful for conservation management. |
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When a new species is introduced, the species could potentially breed with members of native species, producing hybrids. |
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The brown rat can breed throughout the year if conditions are suitable, with a female producing up to five litters a year. |
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Eastern gray squirrels can breed twice a year, but younger and less experienced mothers normally have a single litter per year in the spring. |
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Depending on forage availability, older and more experienced females may breed again in summer. |
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This may serve to increase colony size in species where females return to their natal colony to breed. |
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Typically, only dominant sows can breed, as they suppress the reproduction of subordinate females. |
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Common seals breed in Strangford Lough, grey seals in southwest Wales and, in small numbers, on the Isle of Man. |
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There is a wealth of birdlife, 583 species in total, of which 258 breed on the island or remain during winter. |
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The breed most closely associated with the area is the tough Herdwick, with Rough Fell and Swaledale sheep also common. |
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American bison are more easily tamed than their European cousins, and breed with domestic cattle more readily. |
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They haven't made you an inspectress of boarded-out workhouse children, have they? or sent you down to improve the breed of hens? |
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Other fish, prawns and crabs come into the Lake on the king tides and swim up to the warm backwaters to breed. |
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For example, in England's Exmoor is found the rare horse breed the Exmoor Pony, which has adapted to the harsh conditions of that environment. |
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In the Second World War the moor became a training ground, and the breed was nearly killed off, with only 50 ponies surviving the war. |
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The land use is predominantly agricultural and the county is well known for its fruit and cider production, and the Hereford cattle breed. |
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The Marans breed deserves inclusion in this review of utility poultry, because of the superb rich brown colour of its eggs. |
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Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. |
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Coat patterns that have more than one color on the body, such as Pinto or Appaloosa, are not recognized by mainstream breed registries. |
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The Thoroughbred is a distinct breed of horse, although people sometimes refer to a purebred horse of any breed as a thoroughbred. |
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The term for any horse or other animal derived from a single breed line is purebred. |
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Other stallions of oriental breeding were less influential, but still made noteworthy contributions to the breed. |
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An aspect of the modern British breeding establishment is that they breed not only for flat racing, but also for steeplechasing. |
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Messenger left little impact on the American Thoroughbred, but is considered a foundation sire of the Standardbred breed. |
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The foundation stallion of the Morgan breed is held by some to have been sired by a Thoroughbred. |
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Thoroughbreds have been exported to many other areas of the world since the breed was created. |
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People say Tiger Woods created the new breed of golfer but I believe Nick Faldo did. |
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Artificial insemination, cloning and embryo transfer are not allowed in the Thoroughbred breed. |
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Approximately 400 bird species inhabit Denmark and about 160 of those breed in the country. |
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Faroese domestic breed include Faroe pony, Faroe cow, Faroe sheep, Faroese goose and Faroese duck. |
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On steep mountainsides breed large colonies of auks, puffins, skuas, and kittiwakes. |
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The Manx cat is a breed of cat noted for having a genetic mutation that causes it to have a shortened tail. |
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Native to Scotland, Angus cattle is the UK's most popular native beef breed. |
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Many bird species, including seven species of penguin breed in the British Antarctic Territories. |
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They are home to large bird populations, although many no longer breed on the main islands because of competition from introduced species. |
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A small population of humpback whales which has been poorly studied annually migrate to the islands to winter and breed. |
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The resurrection of this breed is largely credited to the work of a single woman, Miriam Milbourne. |
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Although no longer considered to be critically endangered, the breed remains on the watchlist of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust. |
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About 2,800 pairs of Common Murres breed in the province, most of which are in the Scott Islands off northwestern Vancouver Island. |
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In other words, according to the theory, it is a moral good to breed more people on the world for as long as total happiness rises. |
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The Bulldog is a breed with characteristically wide head and shoulders along with a pronounced mandibular prognathism. |
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A straight tail is a more desirable tail according to the breed standard set forth by the BCA if it is facing downward, not upwards. |
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The Bulldog breed is the official mascot of the United States Marine Corps, and many bases have their own mascot on base. |
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More than 363 species of birds were recorded in Kuwait, 18 species of which breed in the country. |
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On rare occasions, bats have been carried to the island with the winds, but they are not able to breed there. |
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They may even make a nest but they will not breed until they are four or five years old. |
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Once males have found a place to breed they try to attract an available female. |
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However, they are not solely tied to high elevations and can breed in lowlands if the local habitats are suitable. |
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Individuals that return to natal ponds to breed will likely encounter siblings as potential mates. |
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Female offspring rarely stay at home, dispersing over distances that allow them to breed independently, or to join unrelated groups. |
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In some jurisdictions, it is illegal to import, breed, release, possess, sell, distribute, trade, transport, hunt, or trap Eurasian boars. |
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Most of these birds breed on isolated islands and rocks and thus are hard to observe. |
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Brittany is widely known for the Breton horse, a local breed of draft horse, and for the Brittany gun dog. |
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The Romans probably imported the white breed characteristic of Welsh sheep today. |
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They breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, nesting in crevices among rocks or in burrows in the soil. |
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After fledging, the chicks spend the first few years of their lives at sea, returning to breed about five years later. |
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Puffins in captivity have been known to breed as early as three years of age. |
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Larger females are favored because they can incubate larger numbers of offspring, while also being able to breed a larger clutch size. |
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They are very difficult to tame and breed, as males are sterile, though females are fertile. |
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Unlike the stoat and least weasel, the European polecat is easy to breed in captivity. |
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The Arapawa Island goat is a breed of feral goat found only on Arapaoa Island. |
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The Livestock Conservancy considers them a critically endangered heritage breed. |
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Only members of the Anguilla regularly inhabit fresh water, but they, too, return to the sea to breed. |
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After two dayes folowed ester, and the dayes of swete breed. |
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This is a hardy and prolific breed that has become much more prominent over the last 20 years due to its excellent prolificacy and mothering ability. |
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With the industrialization and urbanization of Sweden well under way by the last decades of the 19th century, a new breed of authors made their mark on Swedish literature. |
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The herdowner was advised not to breed from the affected animal. |
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Where rabbits breed, sometimes Atlantic puffins breed in rabbit burrows. |
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The wildcat is a very capable survivor and prefers to breed with other wildcats, but it's so outnumbered by domestic cats that hybridisation is inevitable. |
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Of the 33 species, 20 breed on land, and the remaining 13 breed on ice. |
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Species that breed on land are usually polygynous, as females gather in large aggregations and males are able to mate with them as well as defend them from rivals. |
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In 2010, a study of 74 Italian wolf male lineages found that 5 of them originated from dog ancestry, indicating that female wolves will breed with stray male dogs in the wild. |
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Most terns breed on open sandy or rocky areas on coasts and islands. |
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The sooty tern is entirely oceanic when not breeding, and healthy young birds are not seen on land for up to five years after fledging until they return to breed. |
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They still breed in their thousands off the Northumberland Coast. |
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There they wrote the first standard of perfection for the breed. |
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The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. |
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Field observations suggest that this new bromeligenous species uses a variety of bromeliad species to breed in, and may be both territorial and exhibit male parental care. |
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There are several theories for the reasons behind the prevalence of accidents and health problems in the Thoroughbred breed, and research is ongoing. |
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This may serve to introduce young to hibernation sites, signal reproduction in adults and allow adults with breed with individuals from other groups. |
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This species can breed year round depending on the local climate. |
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Avocets and stilts are monogamous and tend to breed in small colonies near water. The nest scrape, into which eggs are placed, is often lined with vegetation. |
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This was usually the old arable land of the evicted population, so the choice of sheep breed dictated the totality of clearance in any particular Highland location. |
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The peninsula is the original home of the Lleyn breed of sheep. |
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A few species nest in small or dispersed groups, but most breed in colonies of up to a few hundred pairs, often alongside other seabirds such as gulls or skimmers. |
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Colonies of tens or hundreds, rarely thousands, of birds breed regularly on small coastal and subcoastal islands where food is seasonally or permanently available. |
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Golden eagles that breed from the Kola peninsula to Anadyr in the Russian Far East migrate south to winter on the Russian and Mongolian steppes, and the North China Plains. |
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The partially confined nature of the Wash habitats, combined with the ample tidal flows, allows shellfish to breed, especially shrimp, cockles and mussels. |
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The only other breed said to have this flap is the American Keuda. |
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Some well-intentioned breeders inadvertently breed two dapples together because occasionally a dapple will have so few patches of mottled coloration it appears undappled. |
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Why suffer you that ill-aboding vermin To breed so near your bosom? |
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Many species breed in coastal colonies, with a preference for islands, and one species, the grey gull, breeds in the interior of dry deserts far from water. |
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The Loaghtan, the indigenous breed of Manx sheep, has a rich, dark meat that has found favour with chefs, featuring in dishes on the BBC's MasterChef series. |
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There seems to be indication that their name is related to their breed of war greyhounds since before the 600 BC when the Tectosages and Tolistobogii Celts sacked Delphi. |
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Humpbacks feed in polar waters, and migrate to tropical or subtropical waters to breed and give birth when they fast and live off their fat reserves. |
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