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Animals · Animal ethology · Comparative psychology · Animal models · Outline · Index
Animal breeding follows different pattern depending on species and their habitat. The main patterns are:
- Continuous breeders
- Opportunistic breeders
- Seasonal breeders who have a breeding season the period during each year when a species reproduces
Aspects include[]
- Animal husbandry
- Breeding in the wildis the natural process of animal reproduction occurring in the natural habitat of a given species
- Breeding pair, bonded animals who cooperate to produce offspring
- Breeding program, a planned breeding of animals or plants
- Captive breeding, raising animals in zoos or other controlled conditions
- Cooperative breeding, the raising of the young using non-parental care givers
- Inbreeding
- Inbreeding depression
Relevent genetic concepts[]
See also[]
- Selective breeding
- Crossbreeding, the process of breeding an animal with purebred parents of two different breeds, varieties, or populations
- Preservation breeding, a selection practice to preserve bloodlines
- Animal captivity
- Animal domestication
- Animal mating behaviour
- Animal sexual behaviour
- Animal strain differences
- Assortive mating
- Litter size