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No, this theory comes from an expert on barnacles and worms and pigeon breeding, and you know who I mean: Charles Darwin.
Well that's going to be a breeding ground for compassion.
We started selectively breeding animals many, many thousands of years ago.
Dogs are the result of selectively breeding traits that we like.
But we had to do it the hard way in the old days by choosing offspring that looked a particular way and then breeding them.
But these were created by scientists using both selective breeding and genetic technology.
And so one of the things we've been doing is using genetic enhancement, or genetic manipulation, of normal selective breeding pushed a little bit through genetics.
Now when the Treasure sank in 2000, it was the height of the best breeding season scientists had ever recorded for the African penguin, which at the time, was listed as a threatened species.
And again, we know from long-term monitoring that more of these hand-raised chicks survive to adulthood and breeding age than do parent-raised chicks.
It's a kind of imprinting and selective breeding process for the afterlife.
Now you've probably heard about the Porcupine caribou herd in the context of its breeding ground in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
So the problem that we face with this is that, throughout the landscape, all these pools of water with the larvae, they are scattered all over the place, which makes it very hard for an inspector like this to actually find all these breeding sites and treat them with insecticides.
He's going back to check the control holes again, but he's coming back to the first one, and now he's locking into that smell, which means that now, we can use dogs with these inspectors to much better find the breeding sites of mosquitoes in the field, and therefore have a much bigger impact on malaria.
And to go back to the analogy with nature, one can begin to think in terms of populations, one can talk about permutations, about generations, about crossing and breeding to come up with a design.
Captive breeding will be a major part of bringing back these species.
Thanks to captive breeding at the San Diego Zoo, there's 405 of them now, 226 are out in the wild.
There's no breeding pairs left.
And inside this reactor is a molten salt, so anybody who's a fan of thorium, they're going to be really excited about this, because these reactors happen to be really good at breeding and burning the thorium fuel cycle, uranium-233.
At the end of its breeding cycle, the Great Basin Spadefoot toad digs itself down about a meter under the hard-panned desert soil of the American West, where it can stay for many seasons until conditions are just right for it to emerge again.
On top of this, when you get so many animals so close together, it creates a breeding ground for disease and opportunities for harm and abuse.
But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean, and because the noise that propellers make underwater is sometimes at the same frequency that whales use, then it can damage their acoustic habitat, and they need this for breeding, for finding feeding grounds, for finding mates.
You've got places like Iraq, which is suffering from a high level of sectarian violence, again a breeding ground for terrorism.
Again, lots of weak governance which forms a breeding ground for terrorist activity.
Breeders there developed a rice variety carrying the Sub1 gene using another genetic technique called precision breeding.
It's an experimental breeding program at the USDA Bee Lab in Baton Rouge, and this queen and her attendant bees are part of that program.
They succeeded in breeding mite-resistant bees, but in that process, those bees started to lose traits like their gentleness and their ability to store honey, so to overcome that problem, these researchers are now collaborating with commercial beekeepers.
It has some breeding adults and the young of several generations.
Two survive to breeding age with human interference.
So a breeding adult sea turtle is the very embodiment of a long shot.
By breeding the pea plants he was growing in the monastery's garden, he discovered the principles that rule heredity.
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