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
Her subsequent axolotls were purchased from a specialist breeder, making them more expensive, and she also cares for four rescued axolotls that were not been properly looked after by previous owners.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
She made the ferry journey over to England with a fellow Dutch breeder friend and seven pooches between them -- three of them Swedish Vallhunds and four other hounds.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
After spending a petless year with only one child still living at home, my parents visited a breeder and returned with a Great Dane they named Melina.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
For generations, the world’s top horse breeders have carefully mixed bloodlines for temperament, strength, conformation and athleticism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
The super breeders saving their endangered parakeet species.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
Although there aren’t any other cooperative breeders among the great apes, there are South American treetop monkeys called marmosets and tamarins who do cooperate to raise young.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
As a result, breeders have selected crops with smaller leaves and shorter stems.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2026
In England, farm breeders had refined the creation of novel breeds and variants to a highly sophisticated science.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
