Sentences with phrase «between animals bred»

Not exact matches

For most animals, including humans, an instinct for suitable habitat — a place that offers adequate food, breeding opportunities, and shelter — is the difference between life and death.

In the 19th century, evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin pointed out that breeding led to striking differences between farm animals and plants and their wild counterparts, an observation that helped lay the foundation for his theory of evolution.

Based on previous studies of the life - history, physical and ecological aspects of fecundity, Dr Pincheira - Donoso's work also concludes that the theory should distinguish between fertility during an animal's lifetime and during one particular breeding season, rather than grouping all time periods together.

Group foraging in cooperative animals provides predators with advantages over prey, but for less cooperative colonial - breeding predators, like the little penguin, the benefits of group foraging are less clear due to the potential for competition between penguins.

It demonstrates too the value of captive breeding, even for such a diverse group as this: not only to preserve at least some threatened species, but also to provide contact between humans and animals, and promote human understanding, without which all conservation is doomed.

When the results of the trials were subjected to statistical analysis, the team found a close linear correlation between the degree to which a species engages in cooperative breeding and the likelihood that members of the group would help fellow animals get the food treat.

But sightings were few and far between, and there was no evidence suggesting that the animals were breeding successfully in the area, Kletou told Live Science in an email.

The U.S. government decided in 2008 that there were no discernable differences between cloned and noncloned cows, goats and pigs, so it allowed the process in those animals, although mainly for breeding rather than meat production.

Crude humor in this film contains frequent references to male anatomy, sexual sparring and mild innuendo between the animals that includes comments about breeding, cross dressing and interspecies relationships.

OC Animal Care makes neither a guarantee nor representation as to the true breed of the Dog nor any connection between the described breed and the Dog's temperament.

Test between every breeding of different animals.

The breed was the product of a cross between bull dogs — used for baiting bulls — and terriers, a somewhat larger, family oriented dog, creating a mix that was loyal to humans and vicious with other animals.

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.

Many people who care deeply about animals are not always aware of the connection between the pet store puppy and the breeding female trapped for life in a mill.

Our emphasis is on rescuing Boxers, but we now take in canines of all breeds and birds, and we save and find homes for anywhere between 150 to 170 animals each year.

There's a difference between city run animal control, private humane societies, humane societies that perform animal control, rescue groups, breed specific rescue groups and sanctuaries.

People often wonder what the difference is between a hybrid dog like a Goldendoodle or a Labradoodle and a mixed breed or «mutt» that you might see at your local animal shelter.

CAALS brought together legal practitioners across the country, including several ALDF attorneys, to present on animal law topics such as concentrated animal feeding operations, municipal dog breed bans, and the intersections between consumer protection law and animal law.

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:

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.

Breed discrimination often places families in the untenable position of having to choose between keeping their beloved animal companion and keeping their home.

Distemper is most likely to strike dogs as puppies between nine to twelve weeks old, especially if they come from an environment with several other dogs (animal shelter, pet store, breeding kennel).

As the public face of The HSUS's new Breeders Advisory and Resource Council, Donnelly and McGriff provide input on public policy and help The HSUS raise awareness about the difference between responsible breeders — who breed happy, healthy dogs in clean, humane conditions — and puppy mills, factory - style facilities that focus on profit at the expense of animal welfare.

Diseases found in the breed include hip dysplasia, with 14.9 % of Brittanys tested between 1974 and 2009 by the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals displaying the condition, [9] and a lesser rate of 10.3 % for dogs born 2003 - 2004.

From its inception in 1993, NAIA has championed the rescue of purebred and mixed breed dogs and has worked with shelters and animal control agencies to improve the relationship between rescue groups and these animal welfare organizations and help with fundraising and pet adoptions.

The subject of developing good working relationships between animal shelters and breed rescue groups is close to my heart and what I'm asked to speak or write about most often.

I mean, I know that dogs like shar - peis have some pretty serious health issues having to do with their skin and other breeds have some serious health issues, but I wonder what the difference between these animals is.

The 47 - page document addresses issues ranging from nuisance barking dogs to licensing rules.More time is needed to fine - tune a section of the proposal that differentiates between commercial animal - breeding operations and hobby breeding done by pet fanciers, commissioners said.

The victim advocacy movement may yet regrow a bona fide humane movement rooted in representing «the voice of the voiceless,» as poet Etta Wheeler Wilcox put it in 1910, at a time when humane societies were the standard bearers for abused and exploited children as well as animals, and stood in opposition to slavers and the Ku Klux Klan, not in defense of the dogs the slavers and the KKK bred and used to intimidate racial and ethnic minorities, between staging fundraising dogfights.

These so call «drover dogs» found their way to the town of Rottweil in Germany, and Rottweilers are likely a result of breeding between many different breeds from that region, including several mastiff breeds responsible for contributing the dense bone structure and solid musculature of these stout animals.

Of 189 flight - related animal deaths reported by the Department of Agriculture between June 2005 and June 2011, ninety - eight were brachycephalic breeds, according to The New York Times.

Last Chance for Animals, www.lcanimals.org reports, «Each of the 4,000 - 5,000 puppy mills in the U.S., most of which are located in the Midwest, houses between 75 to 150 breeding aAnimals, www.lcanimals.org reports, «Each of the 4,000 - 5,000 puppy mills in the U.S., most of which are located in the Midwest, houses between 75 to 150 breeding animalsanimals.

Erica Geppi, The North Carolina Director for the Humane Society of the United States, says there is a direct and obvious correlation between the excessive breeding in puppy mills, and the need to euthanize animals in shelters.

This is much more common than the congenital type of the disease — especially in mature animals between 3 and 10 years of age, depending on their breed (large and giant breed dogs tend to become physically «older» at a younger age than their smaller counterparts).

All pet Min Pins should be spayed or neutered by agreement between breeder and buyer; breeding these tiny dogs is not an easy proposition, and only the best quality animals should join the gene pool.

It begins with Lori speaking to Elizabeth Oreck, National Manager of Puppy Mill Initiatives for Best Friends Animal Society about the connection between intentional dog breeding, overpopulation and euthanasia of homeless dogs.

Building on the need to differentiate between true sanctuaries that do not breed, buy, sell, trade or use animals commercially, from those that exploit animals, it is important that the public knows where you stand.

A study to be published in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science points to a substantial discrepancy between visual identifications of dogs by adoption agency personnel and the breeds identified in the same dogs through DNA analysis.

In an environment of breed discrimination, the breed identification of a dog can have serious consequences with municipal authorities, animal shelters, landlords, and insurers, all of which will compromise the bond between a family and their dogs.

A study published in the Journal of American Animal Hospital Association in July 2001 describes a relationship between certain breeds of dog and the presence of storm phobias.

The aging process varies between species, breeds and individual animals.

Through strategic breeding loans and animal exchanges between facilities, genetic diversity is maintained, ensuring the long term genetic and physiological health of penguins in zoological care.

However, Weddell seal hunting is prohibited between September and February if the animal is over one year of age, to ensure breeding stocks are healthy.

The working partnership which is Ostinelli & Priest flourishes and develops simply because the balance of understanding between the two makers / artists / ceramacists continues to create work that pleases and inspires.The subjects chosen by Ostinelli & Priest remain unchanged for the moment, although diversity of animal breeds that are the subjects never stops growing due to the incredible number of breeds available.