Now, though the rutting season was still weeks away, both were becoming interested in the does and jealousy had come between them.
Still in the grip of the rutting season's urge, the angry buck scraped the ground with his antlers.
The wild sow is never furious but when her young is in danger; and it may be remarked in general, that in almost all wild animals the males are more ferocious in the rutting season, and the females when they have young.
In the rutting season the testes become much larger and descend into the scrotal sacs, at other times of the year being apparently more or less abdominal.
In Rodents, however, there is a difference in the organs, not only at maturity, but in every rutting season, at any rate in Muridae such as rats and others.
The antlers are fully developed and the velvet is shed at the commencement of the rutting season, and development of the antlers takes place between the beginning of the year and the month of August or September.
In camels the testicles roll beneath the skin of the groin; rats' testicles are internal, but emerge in the rutting season and assume an enormous development.
Menstruation is found in quadrumanes, in bats; other female mammals show an emission of blood, which is, however, limited to the rutting season.
In rutting time, forgetting his hunting, the male starts in quest of a female; as soon as he divines her, he starts digging in her direction, furiously excavating the hostile earth.
But when the rutting season is on, between October 1st and 20th, the stags are easily approachable and the sport cannot be good.
Or a graceful rutting animal with a choice only between graceless rutting violence and a stinking scuffle with a flabby and abstracted stranger in a strange unloved room?
None of all these three kinds of hounds hunt at the hart in rutting time, unless it be the good bold hound,[153] which is the best of all other hounds.
They are timid upon ordinary occasions, but the bucks in the rutting season are bold, and when wounded and brought "to bay," are not to be approached with impunity.
Here there had been a terrible fight among the bulls--it was the rutting season, when such conflicts occur.
It is somewhat hard to reject altogether the idea that the elk of Scandinavia is, during the rutting season, habitually more silent than the moose is reported to be--but here I get out of my depth.
The Caucasian ollèn has his antlers clean from about the middle of August, and his rutting season is (in the mountain regions near Naltchik) about the middle of September.
The male has an abdominal gland containing more or less musk according to the season, it being fullest during the rutting season in the winter; this pod is valuable (a good one is worth Rs.
The rutting stag, ardent with virile passion, is singularly heedless of danger at this season, and were it not for the hinds, who at this period appear to redouble their vigilance, he would be comparatively easy to stalk.
This is attributable to the deer breeding all the year round instead of having a definite rutting season, the shedding of horns varying with the age of the stag.
The buck usually changes his coat after the rutting season, which is in the spring, the season varying slightly according to locality.
These cries are produced by blowing through a birchbark horn, and on account of the blind fury of the rutting males they are often very successful in bringing them to their death.
Although so large and characteristic, it is not known that they serve any more useful purpose than as weapons during the rutting season.
In summer comes the rutting season, in which the great males shake their antlers and attack any animal that comes their way.
The rutting season lasts for about six weeks, beginning in September and ending in October.
We travelled hard towards the north, but only fell in with two solitary bulls, both of which were killed; the rutting season was just coming on, and the bulls were apparently seeking the cows.
Early in the season the neighbourhood of swamps is the likeliest place to find deer, but during the rutting season (middle of October) the old bucks seem to keep to the higher grounds.
During the rutting season (from July 20 to September 16) the buffaloes all ran together, but during the rest of the year the old bulls kept together, apart from the cows and young bulls.
The flesh of this little beast has a strong flavour of musk and is very disagreeable to eat at all times, but in the rutting season is altogether uneatable; the natives, however, revel in it.
The males stay in the woods until May and never reach the coast, but meet the females on their way inland at the end of July; from this time they stay together till the rutting season is over, and it is time to seek the woods once more.
In animals the rutting period is generally regulated so that the young are born exactly at the time of year when they will find food most abundant.
Among animals which have a definite rutting period, marriage cannot depend solely on the sexual appetite, or egoistic eroticism, without ceasing with the rut.
In man, a special reason in favor of marriage is the fact that he has no rutting period.
We may certainly admit that this was also the case in primitive man, especially when there existed a rutting period, for then the sexual appetite was more violent.
On the other hand, the males of Seals appear to have a rutting season at the same time as the sexual season of the female.
Stags in the rutting season, when they have no partners, rub themselves against trees to produce ejaculation.
The rutting season of the red deer commences in the Coto Donana at the end of August (the last quarter of the August moon), and continues till the full moon in September.
The elk is steady of nerve, and sanguine in temperament, but in the rutting season the herd-masters are dangerous.
Never go into the range or corral of a deer herd unless accompanied by the deer-keeper; and in the rutting season do not go in at all.
In large preserves it does well, but during the rutting season the bucks are to be dreaded; and those that develop aggressive traits should be shot and marketed.
Bucks in the rutting season sometimes seem to go crazy, and often they attack men, wantonly and dangerously.
The haunches of the males are now covered to the depth of two inches or more with fat, which is beginning to get red and high flavoured, and is considered a sure indication of the commencement of the rutting season.
The ruttingseason of coyotes is during February, and that of wolves from January 1st until April, approximately speaking.
As the rutting season of mule-deer is later in the year, the drag in the buck's trail is a most prominent feature, when in the case of the Virginia deer it has ceased to connect the individual tracks.
Still later, during the rutting season, the biggest specimens and best fighters will occupy those roomy, open forests, where in September and early October they make their appearance only during morning and evening hours.
Trail of buck; drag duringrutting season from one step to the next.
Calling him like the wolf and coyote yields good results for the still-hunter, but of all methods I prefer to shoot them during the rutting season, which occurs in January.
A buck always has the tendency to drag his legs, a feature which reaches the climax during rutting season, while any doe, even the sterile, steps clean if the snow is less than one foot deep.
If, for example, the rutting place of the biggest elk in a district is located by comparison of various tracks, and the bull is shot later by waiting for, or stalking him at his favorite place, he undoubtedly falls a victim to tracking.
During rutting season the drag extends from one step to the next.
Old bucks, before and afterrutting season, frequently make their habitat in roomy forests or in the breaks of the Bad Lands, sometimes several miles distant from the grounds where the herds roam.
It was scarce daylight when I took my weapons and went to pay another visit to the rutting stags, John accompanying me.
The ram’s horns cease growing at the time of the rutting season, and do not begin again until the spring brings nourishing food.
You are not likely to find ewes and rams together till the rutting season,[14] in December.
The rutting season begins in July and lasts about two months.
This he would set to his lips at intervals, and utter through it his deadly perfect mimicry of the call of the cow-moose in rutting season.
First it's a painter, an' now it's a rutting buck.
As a consequence, here he was, Dave Titus, the noted hunter, the Nimrod, held up by a rutting buck!
Had it been the rutting season, he would no doubt have straightway challenged her to mortal combat.
I found the rutting places of the latter in the high grass, but soon returned to the fire, as the cry of the owl warned us of the approach of night.
The cry of the male elk, in the rutting season, is very singular, and seems to be in no due proportion to the large, heavy animals.
A herd of twelve elks passed the river before us; the last was a large stag with colossal horns, this being the rutting season of these animals.
On which the buffalo cleared a spot on the ground with his fore foot, and said, "When the rutting time of the buffaloes approaches, come here and you will find something to smoke.
The hair of a rutting leopardess, the liver of a forest rat, the tongue of a Baroto bird—these must I have to mix with thy blood to be drunk by thy man when the moon is full.
The bite of the violently enraged dog, and the bites mutually given when following a rutting bitch, are popularly supposed to cause rabies; but if this were the case, the disease must have been universally prevalent.
The single advantage of this is that it does away with the host of suitors that follow a rutting bitch, and the mutual worrying and biting that ensue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rutting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: burning; hot; must; musty; rutty
