breeding

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

But very often, when you've had generations of breeding cattle, breeding the family lines... to lose those and then try and start again.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

The reintroductions represented the first attempt to re-establish a sustainable breeding population of the tree-climbing members of the weasel family in the South West since they were hunted to extinction more than a century ago.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

While one’s first association to African antelope is “vast dense herds spreading across the horizon,” in fact the males of those herds space themselves into territories and fight fiercely with each other when breeding.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

Her mind was taken from morbid breedings as they climbed stairs and explored rooms and questioned agents.

From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington

If her breedings, her bitterness of spirit manifested themselves, it was in a fixed undertone of pessimism and in an occasional outburst of recklessness that bewildered her brother.

From Flowing Gold by Beach, Rex Ellingwood