conspecific
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of conspecific
Example Sentences
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The research team first wanted to check whether the roosters really emit alarm calls in the presence of a conspecific and stay silent when they are 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
However, since it seems almost certain that Batrachyla longipes and Syrrhophus latodactylus are conspecific, the former name should not be left as a nomen dubium.
From A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope by John D. Lynch
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