conspecific
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of conspecific
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In total, the roosters emitted 77 alarm calls in the presence of a conspecific -- but only 17 when they were alone.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
Questions about conspecific interactions often focus on competition among members of the same species for a limited resource.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
“When it’s a fish they’re like, ‘Ooh you need a conspecific control and a control for empathy and a control for this and that … the fish are not doing this’.”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2019
In short, a strong case can be made for the idea that the Darling Downs dragons are not conspecific with the other Grassland earless dragon populations: Melville .
From Scientific American ● Jan. 4, 2014
Throughout most of this region it occurs with another mouse, currently regarded as conspecific with Apodemus sylvaticus, and the two kinds have been confused by some previous authors.
From Comments on the Taxonomic Status of Apodemus peninsulae, with Description of a New Subspecies from North China by J. Knox Jones
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