breeder
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More than 100,000 contraband cockroaches were found in a raid on a commercial breeder in the town of Bathurst, west of Sydney, Australia's environment department said on Friday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
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
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
Humboldt seemed to have little chance after Terry Lovinger, a prominent California owner and breeder, spoke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 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
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
As a result, breeders have selected crops with smaller leaves and shorter stems.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2026
Still, a search for “teacup pigs” yields a deluge of breeders promising improbably small pigs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
As a rule domesticated plants are less genetically diverse than wild species, because breeders try to breed out characteristics they don't want.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
