Jackals search for hiding blackbuck calves throughout the day during the calving period. When calving, cows stay in the herd for protection. Golden eagles prey on calves and are the most prolific hunter on the calving grounds. Caribou management calls for preservation of calving grounds. During the wildebeest calving season, African golden wolves will feed almost exclusively on their afterbirth. There are records of sharks attacking North Atlantic right whales on their calving grounds. Common bottlenose dolphins use these important habitats for calving, foraging, and feeding. First order processes are responsible for the overall rate of calving at the glacier scale. This in turn appears to have increased glacial calving at the coasts. So, to prevent the unborn calf from dying of frostbite, they migrate to calving/mating grounds. She loved kitties, earthquakes, glacial calving, meteor showers, science, blue skies and sunsets, and Tahiti. In this case an imbalance of forces at the calving front propagates up-glacier. The female is noted for her ease of calving and milking ability. Though they mate and reproduce year-round, sambar calving peaks seasonally. Moose also require access to mineral licks, safe places for calving and aquatic feeding sites.