11.   Q. How big a threat is mad cow disease in American-born and -bred animals?

12.   Rodeo animals are bred and trained to buck.

13.   Summer is spent breeding the animals and harvesting grasses along riverbanks and lake shores to be dried and stored for winter fodder.

14.   The real villains are the people who breed animals to fill the demand of the moment.

15.   They call it barbaric and unambiguously cruel, the only sport since the prohibition of dog fighting decades ago in which animals are bred solely to kill one another.

16.   We are always breeding animals with the idea of returning them to their natural environment.

17.   Animals are bred indoors, fed well and given regular check-ups.

18.   Breeding animals, notes Samate, is less complicated than breeding birds -- which is costly and yields uncertain results.

19.   Commercially, cloning could be used to breed animals that are free from disease, Lanza said.

20.   Efforts to breed the animal in captivity have been only marginally successful.