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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because of the long gestation and lactation periods, the interval between calving is usually at least two or three years.
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Females are often limited further by the necessity to rear offspring by brooding or lactation .
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Tetany may be triggered by hyperventilation or precipitated by vomiting or by pregnancy and lactation .
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The suckling pup may also be infected by ingestion of L3 in the milk during the first three weeks of lactation .
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There is one reported instance of hypomagnesemia sue to excessive lactation .
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Thus the beta-lactoglobulin gene is expressed only in the mammary gland, and only during lactation .
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Yields are best after the second lactation and the smallness of the fat globules makes the milk very digestible.