Sentences with phrase «as wolf dogs»

Native American Indians had the first versions of the breed, known as Wolf Dogs, for hunting and herding.

Tamaskan Huskies are tall, sturdy, and athletic dog which was created from Ireland to work as a sledge dog but they are more popular as wolf dog.

Not exact matches

Yes, of course, evolution is fact, you can see it in any museum or just looking at your pet dog, formerly known as wolf several millenia ago.

Even when the minister begins as missionary to some people in the world he soon gathers a Church that claims his special attention; even when he begins as a shepherd of a separated flock he is bound to have relations to those who seem to be the wolves that prey upon it or the dogs that protect it.

They [atheists] become as dogs, goats, swine and wolves in their irrationality.

As with most human activities, as our knowledge increased, dog breeding improved and exploded in the 1900s, with the current 600 or so breeds of dogs all descendent from the original wolAs with most human activities, as our knowledge increased, dog breeding improved and exploded in the 1900s, with the current 600 or so breeds of dogs all descendent from the original wolas our knowledge increased, dog breeding improved and exploded in the 1900s, with the current 600 or so breeds of dogs all descendent from the original wolf.

In the struggle for life, the domestic dog species originated through means of selection as a favored race from the original wolf.

This is why, for Omatseye, to now project the mercantilist politics of his master, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the true «progressive politics» is like calling a wolf a dog because of some identical physiognomics.

Just as it does in dogs and humans, the disease attacks a wolf's brain, causing aggressive behavior and, eventually, death.

Another experiment gave dogs and wolves the chance to observe conspecifics as they opened a box.

Dueling genetic studies based on the DNA of modern dogs and wolves suggest the fellowship between humans and dogs could have been forged in the Middle East, Central Asia, East Asia or, as Goyet's archaeological evidence suggests, in Europe.

They showed that the ancestors of dogs, the wolves, are at least as attentive to members of their species and to humans as dogs are.

«It provides [evidence for] exactly what we did, in terms of the split between East and West,» he says, and the two papers place the dog — wolf divergence at around the same time as well.

Other labs could then compare DNA sequences from purebred dogs; wild canids such as wolves, coyotes, and dingoes; and feral dogs.

As wolves were morphing into dogs, only those that could bond with humans would have received care and protection.

People and dogs also look into each other's eyes while interacting — a sign of understanding and affection that dogs» closest relatives, wolves, interpret as hostility.

Such diversity led Darwin to think that domestic dogs must have evolved from several wild canines, such as jackals, coyotes and wolves, but in fact we now know that all breeds descended from one species, the grey wolf.

The analysis pointed toward central Asia as the place where dogs likely transitioned from wolves.

The success could make it easier for wildlife conservationists to help such endangered species as the African painted dog or the Ethiopian wolf, says study coauthor Alexander Travis, a...

In addition to collecting DNA from hundreds of modern wolves as well as mutts and purebred dogs, the dual - origin researchers extracted DNA from dozens of ancient dogs, including a particularly high - value sample from a 4,800 - year - old animal unearthed in Newgrange, Ireland.

While low - ranked wolves often defended their food against the high - ranked partner and showed aggressive behaviour as often as higher - ranked wolves, this was different in dogs.

That's because unlike dogs, wolves haven't evolved to avoid conflict; instead, members of a pack «sort things out» as they forage together, according to a new study.

Dogs may be social butterflies, but wolves are top dog when it comes to working together as a team.

As they traveled, dogs mingled with other populations of dogs but also with wolves, both ancestral and modern, creating a genetic potpourri.

Previous research had established the wolf as the ancestor of today's dog, but when and where humans first domesticated the animals remained unclear.

Dogs have personalities, as any loving owner will attest, but GPS trackers are needed to find out if they form complex social hierarchies like wolves

As the team reports July 1 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, supposed yeti and bigfoot samples turned out to come from bears (brown, black and polar), horses, raccoons, one human, some canines (the test didn't narrow down if they were wolves or dogs), cows, sheep, a North American porcupine, a Malaysian tapir and a serow, which is a known animal similar to a goat or antelope.

The molecule is present in dog - like carnivores such as dogs, wolves, bears, foxes and badgers, but is not found in cat - like carnivores such as cats, lions and tigers.

In this case, as in a recent case of gene borrowing between weeds (ScienceNOW, 13 November 2008), «humans were indirect agents in promoting these events,» says Enrico Coen, a geneticist at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, U.K. Geneticist Sheila Schmutz of the University of Saskatchewan in Canada wonders what else the dogs might have contributed to wolves, say, to metabolism or immune system function.

Domestic dogs, who are descended from cooperatively breeding wolves, and elephants also perform better on socio - cognitive tasks, such as imitation, compared to other animals of similar brain size.

«Our study is unique as it does not only compare dogs and wolves living under identical conditions, with a same history and training regime,» Bräuer adds, «We also compared dogs living in packs to pets living with their human families.»

Although they still smell as sharply as their wolf forebears, dogs have also developed the ability to interpret visual cues from species other than their own.

This could mask differences between the dogs and wolves, such as that dogs learn more easily about human communication throughout their lives.»

Adam Freedman of Harvard University and an international group of collaborators compared DNA from three breeds of dogs (a boxer, a Basenji and an Australian dingo) to that of three gray wolves (Canis lupus) from Croatia, China and Israel — three locations proposed as centers of dog domestication.

Furthermore, CTC harbours an additional component that is found predominantly in modern Indian village as well as in Central Asian (Afghan, Mongolian and Nepalese), and Middle Eastern (Saudi Arabian and Qatari) dogs (concordant with its position in the PCA), as well as some wolf admixture.

As domestication must have occurred subsequent to the dog — wolf divergence and before Southeast Asian dog divergence (∼ 17,500 — 23,900 years ago; Fig. 5b) our results provide an upper and lower bound for the onset of dog domestication, between ∼ 20,000 and 40,000 years ago.

Altogether, the haplotypes of the three ancient samples were classified as either dog or wolf - like for 18 matrices that showed clear distinction between dog and wild canid haplotypes based on average reference allele counts calculated per window.

They measured how much time each dog or wolf spent within a 1 - meter radius of a human, as well as how hard the animal worked to solve a puzzle box.

Linnaeus» system also showed how similar animals — such as dogs and wolves, for example — could be grouped together.

Researchers say the relationship between snow leopards and wolves is the same as cats and dogs.

These burials are exceptions, but not that rare: there are others, but there is also is evidence that fisher - hunters in Baikal consumed dogs and wolves, as their burned and fragmented bones appear in refuse pits.

«Many dogs maintain their puppy - like enthusiasm for social interactions throughout their life, whereas wolves grow out of this behavior and engage in more mature, abbreviated greetings as they age,» said Monique Udell, who studies animal behavior at Oregon State University and co-authored the new study.

War Dogs is nowhere near as in your face as say The Wolf of Wall Street or as confusing as The Big Short may have gotten.

War Dogs has the air of The Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Short as it is further proof of the obsession many young men have with money and power and how far it takes them before it all comes crashing down on them.

Then there's Dallas Wolf (Tracy Letts, continuing his quest to be this summer's Most Hated Supporting Indie Film Player following his turns in «Wiener - Dog» and «Indignation»), a secretive radio show host of the Alex Jones variety who has fired them up with his broadcasts and books such as «Genocide: The Murder of White America.»

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«The Big Short» and «The Wolf of Wall Street» this is not, and although it works just fine as a piece of late - summer entertainment, for a movie called «War Dogs,» it's all bark and no bite.

I also think she saw the dogs as her pack of wolves, a place where she belonged and was accepted.

In parallel opening spreads, a little girl says good - bye to her parents and dog as she heads off to school, and a wolf cub ranges across the field with his pack.

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