for the mice, we restrict attention to litters of eight ( Af ) ; ;

According to one study, " German wild boar litters have six to eight piglets on average, other countries usually only about four or five.

The snowshoe hare may have up to four litters in a year which average three to eight young.

However, litters of six to eight are the most common.

Females can have two or three litters a year of six to eight young each.

Female voles have two litters of two to eight young in a year.

Females have two or three litters of four to eight young in a year.

Females have two or three litters of four to eight young in a year.

Female lemmings have two or three litters of four to eight young in a year.

Female voles have two to four litters of two to eight young in a year.

Gestation lasts 21 days, and typically results in the birth of eight young, although litters of between 6 and 14 young have been reported.

Since, like other voles, the female has only eight teats, litters of more than eight young are unlikely to survive.

In the wild, three to four litters are produced each year, with an average of eight offspring per litter.

One female can have 5 to 10 litters per year, so the mice population can increase very quickly.

The pups within litters of deer mice are kept by the mother within an individual home range.

The deer mice do not mingle in groups with their litters.

During the development stages, the mice within one litter interact much more than mice of two different litters.

Three or four litters per year is probably typical ; captive deer mice have borne as many as 14 litters in one year.

The breeding season is from April to October in the Northern Hemisphere, with two to five litters of one to 13 young being born after a gestation period of 16 to 23 days.

Though the ruffed lemur species are the only lemurids that have true litters, consisting of anywhere from 2 to 6 offspring.

In 1564 Guilliam Boonen came from the Netherlands to be Queen Elizabeth's first coach-builder — thus introducing the new European invention of the spring-suspension coach to England, as a replacement for the litters and carts of an earlier transportation mode.

Having decided against using the Norman system of horse litters, he settled on two-or four-wheeled horse-drawn wagons, which were used to transport fallen soldiers from the ( active ) battlefield after they had received early treatment in the field.

The pregnant females separate from the group, build a nest on a tree or in a rocky niche and, after a gestation period of about 11 weeks, give birth to litters of three to seven kits.

Shrapnel from the dropped ordnance also litters the range, as well as dozens of crushed olive drab ammunition boxes.

Shrapnel from the dropped ordnance also litters the range, as well as dozens of crushed olive drab ammunition boxes.

Hochenedel gave a short-legged male kitten from one of Blackberry's litters to a friend, Kay LaFrance, and she named the kitten Toulouse.

Most litters are of one or two young, which stay in the pouch for 80 or 90 days, and first emerge from the nest about three weeks after that.

First litters of the year are born from mid-April to May.

Pregnancy rates ranged from 78 to 100 % for females during the period of first litter production, 82 to 100 % for second litters, and for the periods of third and fourth litters pregnancy rates vary with population cycle.

In Newfoundland, the average number of litters per female per year ranged from 2. 9 to 3. 5, and in Alberta the range was from 2. 7 to 3. 3.

The female then will give birth to litters of one or three young several times a year, after a gestation period varying from 45 to 60 days.

The young remain with the colony until they reach sexual maturity at around two years of age, and share the burrow system with their parents and siblings from other litters.

Female pregnant weight varies over the course of gestation and according to litter size ; litters contain an average of six pups, but size can range from one or two up to twelve young.

In 1935, four ligers from two litters were reared in the Zoological Gardens of Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Meanwhile, Greg Lougher, a Napa, California cattle rancher who met Alan McNiven while stationed in Australia during World War II, had imported several adults and several litters from McNiven.

* Kin selection: since subsequent litters or broods from the same parents will be full siblings to the helpers, they are as closely related genetically as their own offspring would be.

We try to keep them from having unwanted puppies, and yet these women are literally having litters of children ", and that " we campaign to neuter dogs and yet we allow women to have 10 or 12 kids that they can ’ t take care of ".

Kittens from closed breed book litters tend to be smaller in size.

Additionally, small dogs from Sussex Spaniel litters were called Cockers.

Cats with coats similar to Cornish Rexes occurred in non-pedigree litters in an area where there were no known Cornish Rex cats.

Helpers at the nest is a term used in behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology to describe a social structure in which juveniles and sexually mature adolescents of either one or both sexes, remain in association with their parents and help them raise subsequent broods or litters, instead of dispersing and beginning to reproduce themselves.

They often serve as registries, which are lists of adult purebred dogs and lists of litters of puppies born to purebred parents.

Subsequent litters born to the same parents survived and are being developed into a new breed.