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Cormorant — one of the unclean species of bird (Leviticus 11:17; Deuteronomy 14:17), commonly given as the translation of the Hebrew שָׁלָךְ (šālāk̲), although this name, which means "one who plunges", may have applied to a different species of plunging bird. שָׁלָךְ means "osprey" in Modern Hebrew. Cow — See ...
An otter's den is called a holt, or couch. Male otters are called dogs or boars; females are called bitches or sows; and their offspring are called pups or cubs. [6] [7] The collective nouns for otters are bevy, family, lodge, romp (being descriptive of their often playful nature), or, when in water, raft. [8] [9]
In the Hebrew Bible, the feminine plural noun bechorot is used to describe "firstlings" of a flock. In rabbinical Hebrew, the masculine noun bechor is also used of the first born animal to open the womb of its mother. The animal "firstborn beast" (Hebrew bechor behema בכור בהמה) is listed as one of the twenty-four priestly gifts.
The river otter pups — one female and two males, weighing between 5.1 and 5.9 ounces — were born in a secluded den. ... scenes for awhile to allow mother and babies uninterrupted bonding time ...
In most female mammals the average litter size is about half the number of mammae. [1] Presumably this enables females to successfully nurse litters even if some mammae fail to produce milk. Naked mole-rats break this "one-half rule" – field caught and lab born litters averaged 11 to 12 pups, and numbers of mammae on wild and captive females ...
Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in ...
Rosa was adopted by the Monterey Bay Aquarium in 1999 and served as surrogate mother for a record 15 otters. She outlived the life expectancy for wild southern sea otters.
Female otters become sexually mature between 18 and 24 months old and the average age of first breeding is found to be 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 years. Gestation for the Eurasian otter is 60–64 days, the litter weighing about 10% of the female body mass. After the gestation period, one to four pups are born, which remain dependent on the mother for about ...