Examples of studbook in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The breed needs to have a national club, a studbook, and have many dogs dispersed throughout the country. — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 May 2021 The Maryland Zoo manages the golden frog studbook—a compendium of genealogies, maintained to ensure the best possible genetic pairings. — Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021 Just as zoos manage the genetics of captive lions and tigers, Pearson says each spider is given a code that is entered into a tarantula studbook to determine which future pairings would be beneficial and which would not. — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 16 Sep. 2020 Over the years, a consortium of wolf conservation centers, zoos and the Fish and Wildlife Service have worked to expand the gene pool, using a tool called the studbook. — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 30 Dec. 2019 To keep track of captive birds and their origins, Downs teamed up with geneticist Sandi Willows-Munro to create an official Cape parrot studbook. — National Geographic, 11 May 2018

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