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insemination
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insemination [in‚sem·ə′nā·shən]
(biology)
The planting of seed.
(physiology)
The introduction of sperm into the vagina.
Impregnation.


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Can we expect, say, Sea The Stars to inseminate 50 mares a year only until we can evaluate his usefulness as a sire?
Rather than bring a bull into the zoo's herd, bosses chose to fly experts in from Germany to inseminate Noorjahan with a sample taken from the bull elephant, Emmett, at Whipsnade Zoo.
Sperm from two males was used to inseminate Lousheng, so the identity of the father will only be revealed after the cubs undergo DNA tests, the report quoted Ma Qingyi, head of the panda centre's veterinary hospital, as saying.
 
 
 
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