1.   Even in an age of endangered species, many animals are breeding prolifically, straining their environments and clashing with their human neighbors.

2.   Hot weather also reduces output from cows and inhibits the growth of swine and other animals bred for meat.

3.   Most animals breed before or near the time of ovulation.

4.   The animals, which come from South America, were initially farmyard animals bred for meat.

5.   The animals will breed out of public view.

6.   And the abandoned animals have been breeding ever since.

7.   Government officials say hunting would be limited to several weeks a year when the animals are not breeding.

8.   The money is returned after the animals have been breeding for five years.

9.   All attempts to get the animals to breed in captivity have failed.