mating season

noun

: the time of year when an animal mates

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Context: During mating season, some coyotes may venture into yards and neighborhoods in search of food. Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 22 Jan. 2025 Rice and a group of eagle lovers rallied and spent several days in October building a platform in a nearby tree in the hopes the pair would accept it ahead of the 2025 mating season. Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025 The mating season is between October and November and the species often spends a little more than half of the year at the refuge, incubating and raising their chick. Chris Lau, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024 Coyotes seem to be causing chaos in Chicago during their mating season, with one pulled out of a grocery store fridge and another causing an airline pilot to declare an emergency. Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mating season

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“Mating season.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mating%20season. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.

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