A litter is the live birth of multiple offspring at one time in animals from the same mother and usually from one set of parents, particularly from three...

tehsil in Jammu and Kashmir, India Litter, a civil parish in the barony of Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland Litter (zoology), a group of mammals born of the...

Plant litter (also leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, litterfall or duff) is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes)...

Foxes tend to have an average litter size of four to five with an 80 percent success rate in becoming pregnant. Litter sizes can vary greatly according...

a mature animal of the same species. Animal infanticide is studied in zoology, specifically in the field of ethology. Ovicide is the analogous destruction...

genus Ommatoiulus share a similar range but divide their habitat on type of litter. This close species packing suggests habitat partitioning may operate to...

the darkling beetles. It is known commonly as the lesser mealworm and the litter beetle. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring nearly worldwide....

and injured by handling. Some ways to help echidnas include picking up litter, causing less pollution, planting vegetation for shelter, supervising pets...

forage for seeds, insects, nuts, worms, and a variety of other foods in leaf litter and dense vegetation. e.g. grass, but some specialise in climbing trees...

while their father maintains the territory. Older siblings from a previous litter also play a role. After they are born, the kits spend their first one to...

extended periods (three weeks or more) with their litter, they may cannibalize the litter, so the litter must be removed by the time the young can feed and...

annual breeding season, or may breed repeatedly through the year. Each litter typically consists of two to five young, although this may be much higher...

mole is endangered in the United States and Canada. Coast moles produce a litter of 2–5 pups between March and April. Pups leave the nest 33 days after birth...

"land fish" as this worm-like catfish strictly lives among waterlogged leaf litter. Cavefish of multiple families live in underground lakes, underground rivers...

most northern of all lizards. They can burrow into the soil, go under leaf litter, or use shelters like rocks as hibernacula. Although the air temperature...

19th century, the occurrence of black and spotted leopard cubs in the same litter had been repeatedly recorded in India. Black leopards were thought to be...

altricial young. An adult female averages three litters per year, which can occur in any season. Occurrence and litter size depend on several factors, including...

birth to two litters of up to four young in a season, and are able to mate again shortly after the first litter is born. The second litter then enters...

pregnancy and lactation. Females give birth between March and June to a litter of one to four pups that open their eyes after 8 to 11 days. Both female...

as the "first Hebrew zoologist." Aharoni is best known for collecting a litter of Syrian hamsters on an expedition to Aleppo, Syria. The hamsters were...

America, generally in damp places, under logs, in caves and ant nests, in litter, or on foliage. Genera include Rugilus and Trisunius. Astenus cinctus Deroderus...

Gestation typically lasts 6–9 months, including delayed implantation, and litter size numbers up to four cubs. Giant pandas may give birth to twins but they...

middens, which strongly affect the spatial distribution of plant litter and litter-dwelling animals on the soil surface. In the soil system, L. terrestris...

under bark, inside curling leaves, under stones or fallen logs, in leaf litter, or in the cracks in the ground that develop in dry weather. Some excavate...

the year. Gestation lasts between two and three months, resulting in a litter of one to six kittens. Juveniles leave their mothers at the age of nine...

and lay a small number of unpigmented eggs in a cluster among damp leaf litter. Each egg has a large yolk sac and the larva feeds on this while it develops...

Madagascan burrowing frogs are less fossorial and mostly bury themselves in leaf litter. One of these, the green burrowing frog (Scaphiophryne marmorata), has a...

rainforest and tropical dry forest, in dark, moist places such as in leaf litter or under rocks. It is a carnivore that feeds on any other animal it can...

common during the rainy season, between August and March. Unless a previous litter is lost, females typically give birth only once each year. Oestrus lasts...

a year in an area. After a gestational period of two to three months, a litter of one to four is born. The kittens are weaned at the age of one month and...