However, if a female's cubs are killed, then the female comes into estrus early and has more cubs. |
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The fact that the cubs were orphans, abandoned when their mother was run over by a car, was of no account. |
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Otter cubs are fully weaned after three to four months, but stay with their mother for up to a year, during which time they learn to fish. |
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The cubs are reared until they are about six months old and then slaughtered. |
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Their altricial cubs are born in mid-winter, with their eyes closed, and weighing only about 0.6 kg. |
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All the cubs, apart from the last-born who is thinner, are healthy and two are male cubs. |
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The mother of these tiger cubs couldn't produce enough milk, so zookeepers in Hefei, China, enlisted this dog. |
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Hightail ran with her cubs and around them, excited by their game, barely restraining herself from joining it. |
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The weight for both male and female polar bears has declined, and female bears are having fewer cubs. |
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The cubs are cared for by all the females in the pride, and will suckle from other females as well as from their mother. |
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If orphaned cubs don't die of cold or hunger, they may be sold as pets or circus animals by hunters or poachers. |
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A troupe of lion cubs nuzzled her hand and chewed playfully on her shoelaces. |
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Three female lions and two lion cubs were sleeping together under the trees about five metres from our mini-bus. |
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Here, you will have a close encounter with fearsome lions, restless cheetahs, ferocious leopards, and sweet-looking lion cubs. |
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An average social group of lions consists of about three lions, four or five lionesses and cubs. |
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We pulled up within 10-feet of three lionesses and their cubs most blissfully napping. |
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He saw the cubs and adults roistering on the huge expanse of lawn that belonged to the posh street running parallel to Hillside Drive. |
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Together they romp with the animals of the African savannah, particularly the elephants and a trio of cheetah cubs. |
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Three tiger cubs born in Scotland will this week take their first tentative steps into the great outdoors. |
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Unlike any other species of bear, sloth bear cubs often ride around on their mothers' backs. |
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This relates to the practice of blooding young hounds on fox cubs to whet their appetite for hunting. |
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All the males in the social group behave as if they are the father, helping to guard and provision the cubs. |
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The three cubs pictured above are believed to be the first set of polar bear triplets born in captivity. |
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The carol singing was performed by members of the local troop of scouts, cubs and beavers. |
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Females stay with their mothers, forming a group of related animals that co-operate to bring up and feed the latest litters of cubs. |
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Some of the bears were taken from the wild as cubs and several have missing and deformed limbs as a result of snares or leg hold traps. |
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Scattered between the sleeping cats were several cubs of varying ages and both sexes from small unweaned kittens to half-grown yearlings. |
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Once he was filmed crawling along the ground singing as he approached a sow and two cubs. |
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The body of the mother otter was sent for post-mortem examination to try to establish how old the cubs might be. |
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This included cubs belonging to high-ranking females, who were presumably well nourished at the time of their mother's death. |
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Hunting is also seasonal and does not take place when a vixen is suckling her cubs. |
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He could tell from the sutures of the skull that two of them were merely cubs. |
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Fox cubs are usually born in March, which means that pregnant and nursing vixens are hunted and killed by dogs. |
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It's the females who raise the cubs, but the cubs' future depends on the protection provided by their father. |
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The grizzly bear cubs inhabiting the refuge atop Grouse Mountain are sleeping under the watchful eye of two infrared cameras. |
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Lionesses cooperate in teaching the cubs how to go about the art of hunting. |
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In the past fortnight six new sea lion pups have been born and two wolf cubs made their first public appearances. |
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Bottle-feeding 22 fox cubs night after night is not a task many people would relish. |
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They photographed the kennel man as he left the chickens by an earth where some fox cubs lived. |
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The entertaining fox cubs we delighted in are now grown and searching for food. |
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The camera passed with flying colors, enduring feeding frenzies and the nibbles of lion cubs. |
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Since cheetahs have small jaws and a light build, a mother cannot defend her cubs or kills against lions and hyenas. |
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At the moment the Zoo has six eight-month-old lion cubs in a large enclosure, all looking very alert and handsome at 9 o'clock at night. |
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A 500-millimeter lens enabled him to photograph a mother polar bear and her two cubs from a reasonably safe distance. |
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The Daily Dispatch switchboard was almost jammed yesterday as readers called to suggest their names for three lion cubs at the East London Zoo. |
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In a project begun a little over a year ago, he sterilizes pride males that have sired around 20 cubs. |
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The cameras also follow the antics of spectacled bear cubs the only bears to inhabit South America. |
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How does a female tiger protect her young cubs amid the sometimes violent attentions of three male suitors? |
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Over the summer, which is December to February in the southern hemisphere, the fox cubs become independent and establish their own territories. |
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Over the years, some 400 pets have called the White House home, ranging from bear cubs, snakes, and a hyena, to cats and cows. |
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Beginning in 1996, a dozen bear cubs orphaned by hunters were released in the reserve. |
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The cubs who knew me were effusive in their greetings, their claws catching at my clothing as they closed around me, a gabble of voices. |
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We saw them transformed from calm, demure ladies to bears protecting their cubs when the neighborhood bully was on our heels. |
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One can also speculate that cubs emerging from dens in sub-optimal habitats would experience reduced survival. |
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This time he would stay until the snows came, to make sure the cubs denned up. |
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As is customary at the start of a new hunting season, Ferry and the South Shropshire hunt, where he is joint master, were in pursuit of fox cubs. |
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I feed the cubs after their first exuviations, when they start to fully ingest. |
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The cubs are becoming more thick-set like fully mature foxes. |
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With chronometrical precision Switzerland does away with all wolves, and is charged with the killing of at least 25 wolf cubs, which amounts to a generalised licence to kill. |
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It is obvious therefore that not only pregnant and nursing vixens are killed, but also the dog fox, on whom the vixen and cubs often rely for food. |
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The vixen stopped short just six feet from him and gave a single warning cough, which deflected the cubs aside like bullets ricocheting from his legs. |
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The lone male first, then the lionesses, followed the the cubs. |
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A pride of lionesses and their cubs appeared out of the bush, heading for the small pool that Glen and his wife Cindy had built the preceding year. |
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As a result, George felt in honor bound to take the cubs home to Isiolo. |
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Lion cubs, if left alone, can be vulnerable to other large predators. |
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These animals, taken from their mother as young cubs, suffer a mortality rate of 70 percent, according to the report. |
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But Margaret believes the death knell started to toll for brownie packs when the cubs and scouts began accepting girls into their formerly all-boy domain. |
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When very young, the cubs cry when afraid and hum when contented. |
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Move ahead and one can see lion and tiger cubs playing together. |
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The CITES paper also had pictures of the cuddly cubs, emaciated and near death. |
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I have considered it a privilege to watch fox cubs play, otters fish, salmon leap, and blackcock lek without causing disturbance to wildlife or landowner. |
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The female leopard usually gives birth to between two and three cubs, usually in a cave among rocks, thickets, hollow trees, reedy nests or wherever she can find cover. |
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Along with four half-hour feeding sessions a day, the cubs are being bottle-fed and zoo veterinarians are confident they'll survive the unusual tiger rearing. |
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It was nice spending time with Bill, Shannon, and their four cubs. |
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Triplet panda cubs born this past July were reunited with their mother, Juxiao, in a Chinese zoo this week. |
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Around half a million fox cubs are born in the UK every year. |
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Whether the vixen sensed my presence or perhaps it was simply time to move on, after a couple of minutes she moved closer to her cubs, looking around uneasily. |
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There, frolicking in the early morning sunlight, were two tiny fox cubs. |
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Panthers are now birthing healthy fertile cubs and numbers are growing. |
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A troupe of lion cubs nuzzle her hand and chew playfully on her shoelaces. |
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Another of the most popular attractions at the park is a petting zoo which lets the public get close to a pair of lion cubs and a four-week-old giraffe calf. |
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He acquired the wolves as cubs from zoos or animal parks and has reared them mostly by hand. |
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Individual litters of cubs can have up to four different fathers. |
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The granting of temporary conjugal rights might be a means of confusing a new dominant male as to the actual paternity of young cubs, thereby protecting them. |
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For example, everyone is familiar with kittens playing together, or has seen film of fox or wolf cubs wrestling and fighting at the mouth of the den. |
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In exceptional cases, badger and raccoon dog cubs may coexist in the same burrow. |
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These urban foxes are noticeably bolder than their country cousins, sharing the pavement with pedestrians and raising cubs in people's backyards. |
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After we discovered Leah and I realized what she was, the flood gates opened. More and more latents have been discovered, as well as cubs. |
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Anyone who has watched, for example, a litter of otter cubs rolling about in an ottery tangle can hardly doubt that they're really having fun. |
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By 2017 the bears in the Pyrenean region had increased to 39 including 10 cubs. |
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The cubs learn by following and imitating their mother's actions during the period they are with her. |
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Given the opportunity, however, both species will prey on the other's cubs. |
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Snow leopards and Tibetan blue bears are verified, however, to be a threat to one another's cubs. |
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Black Bear Woman's children, in turn, killed Grizzly Bear Woman's own cubs. |
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Sows with cubs account for many attacks on humans by brown bears in North America. |
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In areas where the countryside is waterlogged, cubs may be born above ground in buildings. |
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Subordinate females assist the mother in guarding, feeding and grooming the cubs. |
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Spring cleaning is connected with the birth of cubs, and may occur several times during the summer to prevent parasite levels building up. |
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Females communicate with their young with moans and chuffs, and the distress calls of both cubs and subadults consists of bleats. |
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During this time, cubs playfully imitate the mother's hunting methods in preparation for later life. |
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In most areas, cubs are weaned at two and a half years of age, when the mother chases them away or abandons them. |
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The Western Hudson Bay subpopulation is unusual in that its female polar bears sometimes wean their cubs at only one and a half years. |
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After the mother leaves, sibling cubs sometimes travel and share food together for weeks or months. |
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Ten of the sows had a cub swim with them and after a year, six cubs survived. |
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The study did not determine if the others lost their cubs before, during, or some time after their long swims. |
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Other popular attractions inclued two Red River Hogs, 10 lion cubs and a new woodland walk. |
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One warm spring day I watched dog-fox, vixen and three cubs gambolling on the back lawn. |
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Feeding on milk during winter, cubs immerge from the den weighing 15 to 20 pounds. |
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It is now well established that brown hyenas, at least when rearing cubs, deliberately hunt other carnivores and take them to the breeding dens as food for the cubs. |
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The Auburn team, frequently within casting distance of up to 11 also-fishing Kodiak bears each day, observed a female whose three cubs had been just killed by a big male. |
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Sumatran tigers Fabi, aged eight, and nine-year-old Kirana and their ninemonth-old cubs Kasarna, Jaya and Topan are now settling in to their state-of-theart surroundings. |
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A wolf-mother was not made to remember her cubs of a year or so before. |
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Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot. |
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In 2015, the frozen bodies of Dina and Uyan the cave lion cubs were found. |
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Females are called vixens, and young cubs are known as kits. |
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Despite averaging somewhat smaller sizes, brown bears tend to dominate polar bears in disputes over carcasses, and dead polar bear cubs have been found in brown bear dens. |
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The cubs are fully dependent on the mother and a close bond is formed. |
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The cubs are born eight weeks later, while the mother sleeps. |
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The nursing bear wouldn't move far until her cubs were older. |
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Beginning in 2003, with China's help, the project acquired two studbook registered South China tiger cubs, a male and female aged 7 and 8 months, respectively. |
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