breeder
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More than 100,000 illegal exotic cockroaches - some as big as the palm of a hand - have been seized by Australian authorities from a commercial breeder in New South Wales.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
Showhouses are always extravagant, and this year’s event takes place inside the 8,000-square-foot former home of Clara Baldwin Stocker, daughter of land investor and racehorse breeder Elias J. “Lucky” Baldwin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
"People dream every year to have this piece of paper and the rosetta... it's something very special," Italian breeder and handler Mattia Fasso, 29, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
Wes Pingree, a breeder who runs SoCalMiniPigs with his wife Sandra, said prospective buyers often underestimate what “mini” means.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Mendel, as we shall see, was an instinctual gardener—a breeder of plants, a counter of seeds, an isolator of traits; Darwin was a garden digger—a classifier of plants, an organizer of specimens, a taxonomist.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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"Because of the increase in the population, people are now very disturbed. Damage is being done to farmers, livestock breeders and beekeepers," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
“I don’t think they bring something new in breeding,” said Joris de Brabander, one of Europe’s most successful breeders of show-jumping horses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
The super breeders saving their endangered parakeet species.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
One of the most familiar cooperative breeders to a human audience might be the meerkat, thanks to the documentary series Meerkat Manor.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
Human latrines, like those of aardvarks, may have been a testing ground of the first unconscious crop breeders.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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