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Sentence Examples However, if a female's cubs are killed, then the female comes into estrus early and has more cubs. The fact that the cubs were orphans, abandoned when their mother was run over by a car, was of no account. 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. The cubs are reared until they are about six months old and then slaughtered. Their altricial cubs are born in mid-winter, with their eyes closed, and weighing only about 0.6 kg. All the cubs, apart from the last-born who is thinner, are healthy and two are male cubs. The mother of these tiger cubs couldn't produce enough milk, so zookeepers in Hefei, China, enlisted this dog. Hightail ran with her cubs and around them, excited by their game, barely restraining herself from joining it. The weight for both male and female polar bears has declined, and female bears are having fewer cubs. The cubs are cared for by all the females in the pride, and will suckle from other females as well as from their mother. If orphaned cubs don't die of cold or hunger, they may be sold as pets or circus animals by hunters or poachers. A troupe of lion cubs nuzzled her hand and chewed playfully on her shoelaces. Three female lions and two lion cubs were sleeping together under the trees about five metres from our mini-bus. Here, you will have a close encounter with fearsome lions, restless cheetahs, ferocious leopards, and sweet-looking lion cubs. An average social group of lions consists of about three lions, four or five lionesses and cubs. We pulled up within 10-feet of three lionesses and their cubs most blissfully napping. He saw the cubs and adults roistering on the huge expanse of lawn that belonged to the posh street running parallel to Hillside Drive. Together they romp with the animals of the African savannah, particularly the elephants and a trio of cheetah cubs. Three tiger cubs born in Scotland will this week take their first tentative steps into the great outdoors. Unlike any other species of bear, sloth bear cubs often ride around on their mothers' backs. Show More Sentences This relates to the practice of blooding young hounds on fox cubs to whet their appetite for hunting. All the males in the social group behave as if they are the father, helping to guard and provision the cubs. The three cubs pictured above are believed to be the first set of polar bear triplets born in captivity. The carol singing was performed by members of the local troop of scouts, cubs and beavers. Females stay with their mothers, forming a group of related animals that co-operate to bring up and feed the latest litters of cubs. 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. Scattered between the sleeping cats were several cubs of varying ages and both sexes from small unweaned kittens to half-grown yearlings. Once he was filmed crawling along the ground singing as he approached a sow and two cubs. The body of the mother otter was sent for post-mortem examination to try to establish how old the cubs might be. This included cubs belonging to high-ranking females, who were presumably well nourished at the time of their mother's death. Hunting is also seasonal and does not take place when a vixen is suckling her cubs. He could tell from the sutures of the skull that two of them were merely cubs. Fox cubs are usually born in March, which means that pregnant and nursing vixens are hunted and killed by dogs. It's the females who raise the cubs, but the cubs' future depends on the protection provided by their father. The grizzly bear cubs inhabiting the refuge atop Grouse Mountain are sleeping under the watchful eye of two infrared cameras. Lionesses cooperate in teaching the cubs how to go about the art of hunting. In the past fortnight six new sea lion pups have been born and two wolf cubs made their first public appearances. Bottle-feeding 22 fox cubs night after night is not a task many people would relish. They photographed the kennel man as he left the chickens by an earth where some fox cubs lived. The entertaining fox cubs we delighted in are now grown and searching for food. Show More Sentences The camera passed with flying colors, enduring feeding frenzies and the nibbles of lion cubs. Since cheetahs have small jaws and a light build, a mother cannot defend her cubs or kills against lions and hyenas. 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. A 500-millimeter lens enabled him to photograph a mother polar bear and her two cubs from a reasonably safe distance. The Daily Dispatch switchboard was almost jammed yesterday as readers called to suggest their names for three lion cubs at the East London Zoo. In a project begun a little over a year ago, he sterilizes pride males that have sired around 20 cubs. The cameras also follow the antics of spectacled bear cubs the only bears to inhabit South America. How does a female tiger protect her young cubs amid the sometimes violent attentions of three male suitors? Over the summer, which is December to February in the southern hemisphere, the fox cubs become independent and establish their own territories. Over the years, some 400 pets have called the White House home, ranging from bear cubs, snakes, and a hyena, to cats and cows. Beginning in 1996, a dozen bear cubs orphaned by hunters were released in the reserve. 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. We saw them transformed from calm, demure ladies to bears protecting their cubs when the neighborhood bully was on our heels. One can also speculate that cubs emerging from dens in sub-optimal habitats would experience reduced survival. This time he would stay until the snows came, to make sure the cubs denned up. 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. I feed the cubs after their first exuviations, when they start to fully ingest. The cubs are becoming more thick-set like fully mature foxes. 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. 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. Show More Sentences 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. The lone male first, then the lionesses, followed the the cubs. 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. As a result, George felt in honor bound to take the cubs home to Isiolo. Lion cubs, if left alone, can be vulnerable to other large predators. These animals, taken from their mother as young cubs, suffer a mortality rate of 70 percent, according to the report. 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. When very young, the cubs cry when afraid and hum when contented. Move ahead and one can see lion and tiger cubs playing together. The CITES paper also had pictures of the cuddly cubs, emaciated and near death. 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. 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. 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. It was nice spending time with Bill, Shannon, and their four cubs. Triplet panda cubs born this past July were reunited with their mother, Juxiao, in a Chinese zoo this week. Around half a million fox cubs are born in the UK every year. 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. There, frolicking in the early morning sunlight, were two tiny fox cubs. Panthers are now birthing healthy fertile cubs and numbers are growing. A troupe of lion cubs nuzzle her hand and chew playfully on her shoelaces. Show More Sentences 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. He acquired the wolves as cubs from zoos or animal parks and has reared them mostly by hand. Individual litters of cubs can have up to four different fathers. 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. 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. In exceptional cases, badger and raccoon dog cubs may coexist in the same burrow. These urban foxes are noticeably bolder than their country cousins, sharing the pavement with pedestrians and raising cubs in people's backyards. 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. 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. By 2017 the bears in the Pyrenean region had increased to 39 including 10 cubs. The cubs learn by following and imitating their mother's actions during the period they are with her. Given the opportunity, however, both species will prey on the other's cubs. Snow leopards and Tibetan blue bears are verified, however, to be a threat to one another's cubs. Black Bear Woman's children, in turn, killed Grizzly Bear Woman's own cubs. Sows with cubs account for many attacks on humans by brown bears in North America. In areas where the countryside is waterlogged, cubs may be born above ground in buildings. Subordinate females assist the mother in guarding, feeding and grooming the cubs. Spring cleaning is connected with the birth of cubs, and may occur several times during the summer to prevent parasite levels building up. Females communicate with their young with moans and chuffs, and the distress calls of both cubs and subadults consists of bleats. During this time, cubs playfully imitate the mother's hunting methods in preparation for later life. Show More Sentences In most areas, cubs are weaned at two and a half years of age, when the mother chases them away or abandons them. The Western Hudson Bay subpopulation is unusual in that its female polar bears sometimes wean their cubs at only one and a half years. After the mother leaves, sibling cubs sometimes travel and share food together for weeks or months. Ten of the sows had a cub swim with them and after a year, six cubs survived. The study did not determine if the others lost their cubs before, during, or some time after their long swims. Other popular attractions inclued two Red River Hogs, 10 lion cubs and a new woodland walk. One warm spring day I watched dog-fox, vixen and three cubs gambolling on the back lawn. Feeding on milk during winter, cubs immerge from the den weighing 15 to 20 pounds. 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. 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. 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. A wolf-mother was not made to remember her cubs of a year or so before. Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot. In 2015, the frozen bodies of Dina and Uyan the cave lion cubs were found. Females are called vixens, and young cubs are known as kits. 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. The cubs are fully dependent on the mother and a close bond is formed. The cubs are born eight weeks later, while the mother sleeps. The nursing bear wouldn't move far until her cubs were older. 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. Examples from Classical Literature In the treetop the cubs remained for hours, not once descending to the earth. This was to him a grand discovery, for, in anticipation, cubs and vixen were already his. They'd 'a' had to be purty small bears, but they could 'a' been cubs, easy. I tell yer the maned white wolf is wiser'n most people, and but for eating his cubs, he's nature's gentleman. As we both wrote in the same chamber, we preferred each other's acquaintance to that of the unlicked cubs that surrounded us. Fancy a splendid woman like that spending life hammering a lot of unlicked cubs into shape. They all fell to work now, the boys at one of the cubs and the Aleut at the other. No cub reporter ever did it, not unless he was working against a bunch of other cubs. Amur tiger Dominika gave birth to her cubs Viktor and Murray at Kingussie's Highland Wildlife Park last May. The grieving mother was transformed into a giant sand dune, and her two cubs became the twin Manitou Islands. I warrant th' foxes shows him where their cubs lies an' th' skylarks doesn't hide their nests from him. The four cubs said nothing, but ran down hill on their bellies, melting into the thorn and under-brush as a mole melts into a lawn. The cubs heard him, and, thinking that it was their mother who returned, began to whine and purr for food. Now when the cubs had played awhile, we saw the lioness take up the cubs in her mouth and carry them into the cave. It manifested itself as a fear strong within her, that made her prevent One Eye from more closely inspecting the cubs he had fathered. Irma will raise her cubs alone and they will not become independent for nearly two years. Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother, For though they are little and fubsy, it may be the Bear is their mother. The sight of three little wolf cubs learning to howl is a heart-melter. It was hard not to feel heartbroken when the wolf cubs looked like they were going to be left starving when their father returned home empty-handed from an ox hunt. In the sequel to The Mysterious Howling, we find the Incorrigibles much more like children than wolf cubs, thanks to their governess, Miss Penelope. Show More Sentences I was in the Wolf Cubs, or cubs for short, when I lived in the Midlands. The red Indians were on the march again or at least members of the 1st Holme Valley scouts and cubs were when they took part in the Holme Valley Torchlight Procession. That bully's given me two black eyes I'm shy I hope the big boys don't steal my bamboo shoots By DON MACKAY IT was panda-monium when 16 cubs began life at their new nursery. Of course, in playing together, the cubs had often nipped Mowgli harder than they intended, and there were white scars all over his arms and legs. Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs. This meant that the she-wolf, about whom they both knew, had moved with her cubs to the Otradnoe copse, a small place a mile and a half from the house. Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. If I couldn't keep secrets from th' other lads, secrets about foxes' cubs, an' birds' nests, an' wild things' holes, there'd be naught safe on th' moor. Rehabilitation and re-release of cougars into the wild, while considered an option for the four cubs, have not been shown to have high success rates. This first episode also contains elephants, some cute lion cubs, an even cuter mouse-like creature, the Long-Eared Jerboa, a baby humpbacked whale and some more meerkats. Find more words! 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