Sentences with phrase «other ancestors of the breed»

Not exact matches

The other derives from reports of intergroup fighting among hunter - gatherers; our ancestors lived as hunter - gatherers from the emergence of the Homo genus until the Neolithic era, when humans began settling down to cultivate crops and breed animals, and some scattered groups still live that way.

«Apart from stallion lines in Northern European breeds, all stallion lines detected in other modern breeds derive from more recently introduced Oriental ancestors,» says Barbara Wallner at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.

If you want to wow other Bull Terrier enthusiasts with your fine knowledge of bully breed history, tell them that this particular ancestor was also known as the:

The ones that remain have been bred with a jumble of other breeds to make them unrecognizable from their 17th - century ancestors.

Standard Schnauzer is the oldest of the three schnauzer breeds and an ancestor of the other two — the Giant Schnauzer and the Miniature Schnauzer.

This is subject to debate, however, since the term «Bulldog» was first used around 1568, and may have been used to reference other ancestors of the Bulldog breed.

Staffs share many common ancestors and interbreeding among these and other bull - type dogs is quite common, OptiGen will accept samples from any of these breeds for crd2 testing.

All mastiffs, as well as a number of other breeds that might surprise you, share a common ancestor.

From its ancestor's beginnings as a cattle driving dog and puller of carts the breed has been developed for use in a wide range of activities by modern man including service dogs, therapy animals, top - ranked obedience, tracking, and other performance dogs including use as search and rescue dogs across the country (even the World Trade Center recovery site).

This breed is also thought to be the ancestor of many of the other modern spaniels, and as long as they have plenty of exercise, they are wonderful pets.

The ancestors of today's Wirehaired Pointing Griffon include several wire coated dogs known to be good hunting dogs, the Otterhound, a French Barbet, and several other unknown dogs and breeds.

[11] It is not known if these two first direct ancestors of Rhodesian Ridgebacks had dorsal hair pattern ridges themselves, but they founded the Rhodesian Ridgeback bloodline, so either carried the trait or it was added from other Boer dogs and hybrids with Khoikhoi ridgebacks which van Rooyen bred into his lines over many trials then generations.

The Weimaraner shares ancestors with a number of other German hunting breeds, including the German Shorthaired Pointer, which is apparent in their similar body type.

In dogs, the term breed is used two ways: loosely, to refer to dog types or landraces of dog (also called natural breeds or ancient breeds); or more precisely, to refer to modern breeds of dog, which are documented so as to be known to be descended from specific ancestors, that closely resemble others of their breed in appearance, movement, way of working and other characters; and that reproduce with offspring closely resembling each other and their parents.

The only significant difference between the two is that purebreds, because their parents and other ancestors are all members of the same breed, are similar to a specific «breed standard.»