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  • n  applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
  • n  type genus of the Oestridae: sheep botflies

  • Anyway, she was in heat (oestrus for the technically minded) and thus had a male panda on either side in separate cages in the hope they might hit it off.

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