Sentences with phrase «between animal size»

Of these measurements, significance was achieved for two measurement locations, forearm (radius and ulna) and gaskin lengths, demonstrating a potential correlation between animal size and CPL status within the Friesian breed.

Not exact matches

The Irish wolfhound stands a metre high and weighs as much as 30 chihuahuas, but the difference in size between the two is due to a single gene, which comes in one form in the large animal and another in the small.

Of all relationships between wild animals and people, few are more heartwarming than that of African honey hunters and a robin - sized bird called the greater honeyguide.

The size difference between tumor and healthy circulating DNA was initially discovered in animal tumor models created by inducing tumors with human cancer cells.

The technique, called geometric morphometrics, precisely determined differences in bone size, shape, and configuration between the animals.

According to the report, this relationship between land area and animal size is strong enough to induce evolutionary change over long time periods.

However, animals that had mutations with Pcdha9, but not Sap130, can display defects in the aorta, but with normal - sized left ventricles, suggesting interaction between the two genes is needed to cause all the features of HLHS,» said Xiaoqin Liu, M.D., Ph.D., the first author of the new study and a research instructor in Lo's lab.

A comparison of all the otter jaw simulations revealed a linear relationship between jaw stiffness and animal size: Smaller otters had sturdier jaws.

Zoo veterinarians have been attempting, with varying degrees of success, to castrate the 2 - ton animals for more than 90 years, in hopes of controlling the size of captive populations and reducing the number of fights between the males of this aggressive species.

In animals, scaling relationships between appendages and body size exhibit high interspecific variation but low intraspecific variation.

Treading the line between birds and dinosaurs, the animal was a similar size to a magpie, with feathered wings, sharp teeth and a long bony tail.

Roughly the size of a grain of rice, a microchip is an electronic chip that is injected under the animal's skin, typically between their shoulder blades.

The researchers now suggest that there is a link between how social an animal is and the size of their brains relative to their body size, meaning that dogs may have larger brains relative to their body size than cats because they are more social animals.

To give you an idea, at our animal hospital, the total cost to spay or neuter a dog could be estimated between $ 55 and $ 130, depending on the size and needs of your animal.

Ferrets are a unique pet and fall in an area between Pocket Pets, like hamsters and mice, and full - sized companion animals, such as dogs and cats.

A medium - sized animal as far as dog breeds are concerned, you're going to have these dogs stand anywhere between 17 and 20 inches on average and they will weigh anywhere between 30 pounds and 45 pounds or so.

This takes between four and twelve hours depending on the size of the animal.

A microchip is a tiny capsule (about the size of a piece of rice) that is injected painlessly under the animal's skin between the shoulder blades.

The Kennel Club quotes the findings of the Food & Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, «Breeding strategies for sustainable management of animal genetic resources» (2010) in expressing the relationship between effective population size and the sustainability of breeds thus:

Between the sheep, donkey, llamas, horses, goats, chickens and many rescued dogs and cats, she grew up loving animals of all shapes and sizes.

These prices vary as a result of the size difference between these animals in addition to the complexity of female sterilization versus male sterilization.

The outcome is dependant on the amount of Xylitol ingested relative to the size of the animal and the time lapse between ingestion and treatment.

As the movement to end shelter killing has grown in size and sophistication, the networking made possible through the internet and social media has allowed animal lovers to connect the dots between individual cases of animal cruelty and neglect in shelters nationwide.

In this study the authors described suggestive associations between post-mortem histological observations and IGF1 haplotype status, the latter which is known to be highly associated with animal size [38,45].

A microchip is about 2/3 the size of a grain of rice and is injected under the animal's skin between the shoulder blades.

Spay and Neuter: The average cost to spay and neuter an animal varies between your city, the size of your dog, as well as their overall health.

Animal House homes come in 28 - inch, 35 - inch, and 40 - inch sizes, with one - inch spacing between the bars, for small animals like rabbits, guinea pigs and ferrets; as well as two - and three - level 16 - inch styles, with half - inch bar spacing for little critters such as hamsters, mice and gerbils.

In 2008, as meetings between animal welfare advocates and breeders convened, Mason and others argued against instituting regulations based on these minimal USDA standards, arguing against a cage size at least six inches longer than the dog.

Animal lovers will love to catch the sight of the mammoth sized humpback whales who make seasonal appearances between January and May right near Aloha Sands.

«The authors analyzed malaria statistics that were collected in Finland from 1750 to 2008 via correlation analyses between malaria frequency per million people and all variables that have been used in similar studies throughout other parts of Europe,» including temperature data, animal husbandry, consolidation of land by redistribution and household size... report that «malaria was a common endemic disease in Finland in the 18th and 19th centuries and prevalent in the whole country,» and they say that «mortality during malaria epidemics usually varied between 0.85 and 3 %.»