While sugar cane dramatically increased Spain's earnings on the island, large numbers of the newly imported slaves fled into the nearly impassable mountain ranges in the island's interior, joining the growing communities of cimarrónes — literally, ' wild animals '.

While horses in the wild covered large areas of terrain, they usually did so at relatively slow speeds, unless being chased by a predator.

While horses in the wild mate and foal in mid to late spring, in the case of horses domestically bred for competitive purposes, especially horse racing and various futurities, it is desirable that they be born as close to January 1 in the northern hemisphere or August 1 in the southern hemisphere as possible, so as to be at an advantage in size and maturity when competing against other horses in the same age group.

While recent evidence suggesting that American Ivory-billed Woodpeckers may still exist in the wild has caused excitement in the Ornithology community, no similar evidence exists for the Cuban Ivory-billed bird, believed to be extinct since the last sighting in the late 1980s.

While purists recognize only those letterboxes planted in the wild, many new variations exist.

While it is certainly true that a game with too many wild cards can become so random that all skill is lost, the occasional use of wild cards is a good way to add variation to a game and add opportunities for skillful play.

While in custody, Mason takes Womack hostage to escape, and takes a Hummer H1, while Goodspeed steals a Ferrari F355 and after the wild chase around the streets, Mason escapes.

While millets are indigenous to many parts of the world, millets most likely had an evolutionary origin in tropical western Africa, as that is where the greatest number of both wild and cultivated forms exist.

While luxury establishments may boast the fact that wild animals can be seen at close range on a daily basis, the leopard's camouflage and propensity to hide and stalk prey typically make leopard sightings rare.

While domesticated species are increasing in numbers, the African wild ass and another relative, the Onager, are endangered.

While several Manihot species are wild, all varieties of M. esculenta are cultigens.

While the collection of the eggs of wild birds by amateurs was considered a respectable scientific pursuit in the 19th Century and early 20th Century, from the mid 20th Century onwards it was increasingly regarded as being a hobby rather than a scientific discipline.

While the wild form is usually orange-red, various colours are found in cultivation, ranging from nearly a true scarlet through oranges to yellow.

While many captive bred reptiles and amphibians are offered for sale at pet stores and reptile shows such as bearded dragons, corn snakes and leopard geckos, many animals sold are still removed from the wild.

While there apparently is not written proof of this specific event, Father Hennepin did write in his journals about the fruit orchards and wild animals on Grosse Ile, so historians assume that, at the very least, he explored the island first-hand.

While domesticated rats are not so far removed from their wild counterparts as to justify a distinct subspecies ( compare Canis lupus familiaris and Capra aegagrus hircus ), there are several significant differences that set them apart, the most apparent of which is colouring.

While random colour mutations may occur in the wild, these are rare — most wild R. norvegicus are a dark brown colour, but fancy rats may be anything from white to blue.

While commercially bred neon tetras have adapted well to a wide range of water conditions, in the wild they inhabit very soft, acidic waters that are usually cooler than the 25 ° C ( 77 ° F ) at which most tropical aquaria are maintained.

While A. lamarckii is known to be of North American origin, probably from eastern Canada, it is not known to occur naturally in the wild in North America.

While timid in the wild and vicious if threatened, they tame rather easily and act as vehicles, as well as quick and effective cavalry.

However, Mr Allworthy is ultimately forgiving of Tom's sowing his wild oats: ' While he was angry, therefore, with the incontinence of Jones, he was no less pleased with the honour and honesty of his self-accusation.

While most of the wild trees have white bracts, some selected cultivars of this tree also have pink bracts, some even almost a true red.

While jaguars now live only in the Americas, they are descended from Old World cats.

While the goats and pigs have all died off, feral cats and house mice are still present.

While the other big cats often hunt by night, the cheetah is a diurnal hunter.

While members of the onion family appear to have medicinal properties for humans, they can be deadly for dogs, cats, and guinea pigs ,.

While the LaPerm gene is a simple dominant, the Selkirk gene ( Se ) acts as an incomplete dominant ; incompletely dominant, allele pairs produce three possible genotypes and phenotypes: heterozygous cats ( Sese ) may have a fuller coat that is preferred in the show ring, while homozygous cats ( SeSe ) may have a tighter curl and less coat volume.

While Sphynx cats lack a coat to shed or groom, they are not maintenance free.

While a few registries recognize all-white cats as Turkish Vans, most do not.

While larger kangaroos remain, significant populations of smaller marsupials have been decimated by foxes, feral cats and dogs in this park.

While Bundy spoke warmly of his grandparents in some interviews and told Ann Rule that he " identified with ", " respected ", and " clung to " his grandfather, he and other family members told attorneys in 1987 that Samuel Cowell was a tyrannical bully and a bigot who hated blacks, Italians, Catholics, and Jews, beat his wife and the family dog, and swung neighborhood cats by their tails.

While sometimes claimed to be St Ives, Cornwall, the man with seven wives, each with seven sacks containing seven cats etc.

) While the lower canines are robust, the cheek teeth are not nearly as robust as those of the lion and other modern big cats.

While swimming in the pool of tears, she meets the Mouse ( Sherman Hemsley ), who tells her why he hates cats and dogs.

While most English nouns do not need classifiers ( special, rare phrases like " five cattle " do, but most ordinary phrases such as " three cats " do not ), all Chinese nouns do ; thus, in the first table, phrases that have no classifier in English have one in Chinese.

:" While I like cats, my husband is allergic.

While fledglings can fall prey to rats, cats or the Arctic Fox, healthy adults are threatened only by greater raptors such as the Golden Eagle and the White-tailed Eagle, and more rarely by the Orca whale.

While it is very rare, there are some unusual exceptions in which cats will hide under a table or behind a couch during a thunderstorm.

While there is popular belief for more frequent attacks on pets, zoologists suggest bobcats or coyotes are more likely to prey upon domestic cats and chickens.

While intraperitoneal injection is fully acceptable ( although it may take up to 15 minutes to take effect in dogs and cats ), an intracardiac ( IC ) injection may only be performed on an unconscious or deeply sedated animal.

While brown cats with ticked coats can occasionally be seen, few if any resembles the Singapura, with the majority of cats being bobtailed tabbies, tortoiseshells or bicolor, and the move by the STPB is seen by locals to be an advertising move based on the popularity of the breed among tourists at that time.

While the couple make some large and medium sized pieces, they specialize in miniatures ( around seven cm ), such as dogs, cats, giraffes, rabbits and goats which will for around 30 pesos each.

While the New Zealand robin ( Petroica australis ) is apparently not on the IUCN ’ s list for threatened species, the Stewart Island robin (( Petroica australis rakiura ) has gone through a couple of bottlenecked populations recently because of deforestation and habitat loss, as well as introduced predators such as rats, stoats, and feral cats.

While the cats are lounging around, Porky throws open the window, making an incredibly menacing face.