Definitionn. applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
Last update: July 19, 2015
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An apparent instance of hostility between rival males competing for an oestrus female was observed on September 2, 1950. [Please select]
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It is, however, less prominent than in oestrus, and does not gape. [Please select]
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Post-partum females obviously in oestrus were prevented from being fully receptive by their hostility toward males whose presence might endanger the young. [Please select]
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In confinement only those males having markedly enlarged scrotal testes showed interest in females that were in oestrus. [Please select]
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He would not write more verse, when the oestrus was not on him, but he must write. [Please select]
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In most instances the orifice was not indicative of actual oestrus, as it persisted through the preceding and following stages of an oestrus cycle. [Please select]
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