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Lagomorphs mature sexually at an early age and can give birth to several litters a year ( hence the saying, " to breed like bunnies ").
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It is sexually mature at four years or five years of age.
As with rates of growth, the point at which the toads become sexually mature varies across different regions.
Females become sexually mature when they are four years old, while males become mature at four or five years.
When seen from above, a sexually mature female hamster has a trim tail line ; a male's tail line bulges on both sides.
Males sexually mature at the age of 15, but do not typically reproduce until age 21.
The young become sexually mature the next breeding season.
Like humans, llama males and females mature sexually at different rates.
Females reach puberty at approximately 12 months old ; males do not become sexually mature until approximately three years of age.
The red wolf has one estrous cycle per year and typically becomes sexually mature by its second year.
Bulls aged 4 – 6 years, though sexually mature, are prevented from mating by older bulls.
Echinoderms become sexually mature after approximately two to three years, depending on the species and the environmental conditions.
In certain other asterozoans the adult organisms reproduce asexually for a while before they mature and reproduce sexually.
The Atlantic menhaden usually do not become sexually mature until the end of their second year, after which they reproduce until death.
A young, sexually mature female can produce roughly 38, 000 eggs, while a fully mature female can produce upwards of 362, 000.
The adult, sexually mature, stage of the insect is known as the imago.
Weaning takes place at around three months of age, and pangolins become sexually mature at two years.
If some sort of neoteny or dwarfism occurred, making the animals sexually mature and fully grown while still living on land, they would only need to visit water to drink and reproduce.
They are sexually mature the following spring but often do not mate until later years.
Females become sexually mature at two years of age, while males will acquire sexual maturity at three years of age.
Livestock may be castrated when used for food to increase growth or weight or both of individual male animals and because of the undesirable taste and odor of the meat from sexually mature males.
Smooth Newts take around three years to become sexually mature, on average living for six years.
They become sexually mature in the second year, but neoteny is also known to occur in this species.
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The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.
The fruit is allowed to mature on the tree, but it is still firm at this point.
It is at this point in his life that the mature Prokofieff emerges.
Carpenter's study showed that female common garter and ribbon snakes of Michigan mature at about the age of two.
The plant is normally grown in well-drained loamy soil, using pieces of mature root planted at the start of the rainy season.
Until about 2000, users of Unix desktops regarded CDE as the de facto standard, but at that time, other desktop environments such as GNOME and K Desktop Environment 2 were quickly becoming mature, and became almost universal on the Linux platform, which already had a larger user base than most commercial Unixes in total.
Each of Nelson's Royal Navy war ships at Trafalgar ( 1805 ) required 6, 000 mature oaks for its construction.
Born at 194 Renfrew Street, Glasgow on 21 August 1937 to mature parents, Dewar was an only child.
His Inger On the Beach ( 1889 ), which caused another storm of confusion and controversy, hints at the simplified forms, heavy outlines, sharp contrasts, and emotional content of his mature style to come.
To that extent the solid propellant is considered to have reached the end of its tether, although it will remain the principal propulsion method for at least the next decade until newer technologies mature to a level where they can be successfully implemented.
The least known of Puccini's mature operas, the composer continued to work at revising it until his death.
Although the 1984 – 1985 squad was made up of a healthy mix of emerging players and mature stars, at the beginning of the season no one would have regarded the team as having the necessary ingredients to make it to the end.
Both Syrian and Russian hamsters mature quickly and can begin reproducing at a young age ( 4 – 5 wk ), whereas Chinese hamsters will usually begin reproducing at two to three months of age, and Roborovskis at three to four months of age.
Female killer whales mature at around age 15.
Little Penguins mature at different ages.
Although they found it superior in most ways, it was still at an early stage of development ; the Marines chose the technically inferior but mature M16.
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Exponents of Zen often insist that very early Zen doctrine opposed the rampant supernaturalism of China, and proposed instead a more mature, less credulous view of the universe.
Though several configurations have been tried, particularly in the early experimental days of tank development, a standard, mature design configuration has since emerged to a generally accepted pattern.
They can be grown from seed and mature in summer, or early the following spring.
His other paintings, including casino scenes, show a simplification of form and detail which marked his early mature style.
The Indus Valley Civilization ( IVC ) was a Bronze Age civilization ( 3300 – 1300 BCE ; mature period 2600 – 1900 BCE ) which was centred mostly in the western part of the Indian Subcontinent, considered as early form of Hinduism performed during this civilization.
The emergence of mature ragtime is usually dated to 1897, the year in which several important early rags were published.
It is the only comedy among his mature operas ( he having come to reject his early Das Liebesverbot ), and is his only opera centered on a historically well-defined time and place rather than a mythical or legendary setting.
The name " marrowfat pea " for mature dried peas is recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary as early as 1733.
In his early paintings, Degas already evidenced the mature style that he would later develop more fully by cropping subjects awkwardly and by choosing unusual viewpoints.
However, assuming people mature at different rates, the specific age of 21 would be too late for some and too early for others.
Their early larvae have bilateral symmetry, but they develop fivefold symmetry as they mature.
These cells have nuclei during early phases of erythropoiesis, but extrude them during development as they mature in order to provide more space for hemoglobin.
An experienced, mature player now commonly called " The Don " had replaced the blitzing style of his early days as the " Boy from Bowral ".
The four pitches he later named the " Dream chord ", on which he based many of his mature works, came from his early age appreciation of the continuous sound made by the telephone poles in Bern.
His early style has many of the qualities associated with his mature work, including a freshness of light, colour and touch, and reveals the compositional influence of the Old Masters he had studied, notably of Claude Lorrain.
Delius's early biographer, the composer Patrick Hadley, observed that no trace of his academic tuition can be found in Delius's mature music " except in certain of the weaker passages ".
The thicker the summer canopy, the more the competitive ground-cover is suppressed, encouraging a dense carpet of bluebells, whose leaves mature and die down by early summer.
In early dramatizations, Elisabeth appears as peripheral to her husband and son, and so is always shown as a mature character.
Leeks can be bunched and harvested early when they are about the size of a finger or pencil, or they can be thinned and allowed to grow to a much larger mature size.
In turn, a limerent may only experience a single limerent episode, or may experience " serial " episodes, in which nearly one's entire mature life, from early puberty through late adulthood, can be consumed in successive limerent obsessions.
Although his mature works may not contain the vivid, luminous tints of his early pieces, their loose brushwork and subtlety of polychromatic modulations are without precedent in the history of Western art.
The idealism and introspection implied by this decision were early evidence of issues which would have resonance in the characteristic mindset of the mature man.
Venture capital is a broad subcategory of private equity that refers to equity investments made, typically in less mature companies, for the launch, early development, or expansion of a business.
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