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The Gerudo race is a matriarchal society of warriors that is almost exclusively female, with the only exception being that a male Gerudo is born every 100 years, who then becomes their leader. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Their tendency to bar interaction with men is due to the belief that it will lead to disaster, with the only male interaction allowed being ...
The etymology of the term "freemartin" is uncertain: speculations include that "free" may indicate "willing" (referring to the freemartin's willingness to work) or "exempt from reproduction" (referring to its sterility, or to a farmer's decision to not bother trying to breed a freemartin, or both), or that it may be derived from a Flemish word for a cow which gives no milk and/or has ceased to ...
Animals only rarely exhibit inbreeding avoidance. [1] The inbreeding avoidance hypothesis posits that certain mechanisms develop within a species, or within a given population of a species, as a result of assortative mating and natural and sexual selection , in order to prevent breeding among related individuals.
Semelparity and iteroparity are two contrasting reproductive strategies available to living organisms. A species is considered semelparous if it is characterized by a single reproductive episode before death, and iteroparous if it is characterized by multiple reproductive cycles over the course of its lifetime.
Bulling is a behaviour seen in cattle (and other mammals) when one mounts another, usually when one or the other is a female in oestrus (on heat); [1] "bulling" is commonly used as a term for a female in oestrus. Female cattle in oestrus may mount any adult cattle, especially a bull (fertile male) if one is present, but they will also mount ...
Often, mentions of dams imply cows which will be kept in the herd for repeated breeding (as opposed to heifers or cows to be sold off sooner). A young female before she has had a calf of her own [2] and who is under three years of age is called a heifer (/ ˈ h ɛ f ər / HEF-ər). [3] A young female cow that has had only one calf is ...
For example, in livestock breeding, breeders may use inbreeding when trying to establish a new and desirable trait in the stock and for producing distinct families within a breed, but will need to watch for undesirable characteristics in offspring, which can then be eliminated through further selective breeding or culling. Inbreeding also helps ...
The cows take roughly three years to mature. [2] In order for the meat to be sold under the Matsusaka name, it must meet strict standards. [2] Only virgin female cows can be sold as Matsusaka beef and all calves must be of a breed registered by the Matsusaka Beef Management System. [2]