breeding
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Why do certain people—mostly men, as one ex-wife notes—devote their lives to the capture, sale and breeding of endangered species?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Those ships also carried supplies of fresh water for the monthslong voyage, stored in barrels fit for mosquito breeding.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
It might be those ploughshare tortoises, 75 of which were stolen from a successful Madagascar breeding facility in 1996, rendering them virtually extinct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Flooding in Hengzhou city, Guangxi in early July caused hundreds of snakes to escape from a breeding farm.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
They had been deliberately created by humans—by the selective breeding of variants from the same ancestral cow.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Louise Leatherdale, owner and co-founder of Leatherdale Farms in Long Lake, Minn., which is considered among the best breeders of dressage horses, said she might charge as little as $2,000 for two breedings.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2018
From there, he landed a job selling stallion breedings for the famed Walmac Farm.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2015
In his new home, Yankee Gentleman quickly jumped from about 30 breedings to 94, at $5,000 per time.
From Time ● Apr. 28, 2010
Survival of the sperm with 4 percent glycerol was so poor that only a few breedings were made with these samples.
From Preservation of Bull Semen at Sub-Zero Temperatures by Friedman, M. E.
Her mind was taken from morbid breedings as they climbed stairs and explored rooms and questioned agents.
From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington
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