Sentences with phrase «by humans and dogs»

A current research project underway in Europe, LUPA is focused on the genetic components of diseases both shared by humans and dogs, including MVD.
We have to emphasize this because, while infection between species — man to dog and vice versa — has been relatively nil, there have been reports of influenza viruses being shared by humans and dogs.
The difference is that most humans can not hear ultrasonic tones, but sonic tones are quite loud and can be heard by both humans and dogs.
Nope, that dog is just being plain old rude — by both human and dog standards.

Not exact matches

Traditional dog food starts with poor quality ingredients (waste from the human food industry) and is processed so heavily by extrusion that it is necessary for companies to add synthetic vitamins to sell food as «complete and balanced.»
Through a combination of human effort and divine intervention, Valjean journeys towards his personal redemption while being dogged by Javert, adopting a daughter, and becoming embroiled in the unsuccessful and lesser - known French revolution of 1832.
By hinduism fabrication of moon shiner Jesus, hindu, Racist personality of southern style, calling human and their children dog's.
It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog
Therefore, we need not feel threatened by reductionist accounts of the human person nor by the paradoxes of identity and memory that dog philosophical doctrines of immortality.
Humans take part in a 5K race, followed by a 1 - mile dog walk and costume parade for participants, family members and their dogs.
I agree food waste is a big problem, but the answer to food waste is not rendering scraps otherwise destined for dog food fit for human consumption by applying a chemical spray and then trying to pass it off as wholesome beef!
The field has been dogged by political and religious opponents, who object to the destruction of human embryos during the harvest of cells.
The nymphs quest, or move to the tips of long grass and brush to wait for their next blood meal to wander by: a dog, a deer, or that accidental human host.
The nymphs then quest, moving to the tips of long grass and brush to wait for their next blood meal to wander by: a dog, a deer, or that accidental human host.
Though they are found across the animal world from insects to mammals, research into human pheromones has been dogged by flaky experimental designs and dubious commercial endorsements, with the result that the entire field has a whiff of the disreputable about it.
Friederike Range of the University of Vienna, Austria, and colleagues wanted to see whether dogs» actions, too, were influenced by humans.
Ostrander says that by identifying other dog genes for body size and for traits such as leg length and head shape, researchers may learn more about growth and its disorders — especially cancer — in humans and their best friends.
By the end of this training, the dogs are able to carry out identification exercises during which they sniff a reference human scent and then compare it with five different human odors, one of which is the reference scent.
The BioMed team successfully treated rats, dogs and one human by injecting tumors with a weakened version of Clostridium novyi, a toxic bacterium that lives in the soil.
Using genomic analysis to study cancer in dogs can help develop new therapies for humans with cancer, according to a proof - of - concept study led by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).
This surely contributes to the rarity or nonexistence of human - to - human transmission of rabies (acquired by the bite of an infected dog or bat); cat - scratch disease (which causes skin lesions and swollen lymph nodes); tularemia (a disease, often acquired when hunting and cutting up an infected rabbit, that can cause skin ulcers, swollen lymph nodes, and fever); and BSE (probably acquired by eating the nervous system tissue of infected cows).
D'Aniello and his colleagues tested whether dogs could sniff out human emotions by smell alone.
Both wolves and dogs used information provided by a human to find the hidden food.
The origins of this dog - human relationship were subject of a study by behavioural scientists from the Messerli Research Institute at the Vetmeduni Vienna and the Wolf Science Center.
[Attila Andics et al., Voice - Sensitive Regions in the Dog and Human Brain Are Revealed by Comparative fMRI] Seems that thousands of years of domestication have made our furry friends sensitive to the same vocal cues we are.
By comparing our genetic make - up to the genomes of mice, chimps and a menagerie of other species (rats, chickens, dogs, pufferfish, the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and many bacteria), scientists have learned a great deal about how genes evolve over time, and gained insights into human diseases.
These tests included: navigation, tested by timing how long it took the dogs to get food that was behind different types of barriers; assessing whether they could tell the difference between quantities of food and; their ability to follow a human pointing gesture to an object.
I wonder if the «uncanny valley», the discomfort experienced when confronted by a human - like android (12 January, p 35), could be related to the idea that our brains organise things into specific categories, such as dogs and fish under animals (5 January, p 10)?
The good relationship between humans and dogs was certainly influenced by domestication.
In fact, since domesticated dogs soon reach sexual maturity and reproduce rapidly, an early human family would have been overrun by a pack of carnivores if some puppies were not culled.
They have been hunted for years by feral cats and dogs, which were introduced by humans to their Caribbean island home, Grand Cayman.
Although human faces were unique in some ways, they also bore some striking similarities to those of other species: «He who will look at a dog preparing to attack another dog or a man, and at the same animal when caressing his master, or will watch the countenance of a monkey when insulted, and when fondled by his keeper, will be forced to admit that the movements of their features and their gestures are almost as expressive as those of man.»
The Animals Among Us: How Pets Make Us Human By John Bradshaw From the dawn of domestication to pampered modern pets, anthrozoologist Bradshaw, author of the best - selling Cat Sense and Dog Sense, traces the evolution of predators into companions in this riveting read.
Classification of humans began innocently enough with Carl Linnaeus and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, who simply classified humans into races in the same way they classified dogs or cats — by their physical characteristics.
Most of the research has focused on studying how dogs are capable to understand different forms of human communication, for example by displaying gestures and human voice recognition.
They also plan to study how dogs themselves express emotions and how their emotions are influenced by the emotions of their owners or other humans.
The study, «Dog Walking, the Human - Animal Bond and Older Adults» Physical Health,» recently was published by The Gerontologist.
The results indicate that the dogs are detecting emotion by smell and support the conclusion that communication between humans and dogs has an olfactory component.
The authors say that the particular combination of species currently infected by dog - related rabies probably arose as a combined effect of historical spread by humans and host jumping.
Humans and cats each made up 13.3 % of Aedes blood meals, while deer and dogs were bitten less frequently by all mosquito species.
When a real animal interacts with an animalbot, and that bot is controlled by a human, it's as though the human has donned a scale - size animal suit and disguised himself as a bird or a dog or even a bee.
CAPTCHAs, that border between the human and the robot - readable used by Craigslist among many other sites and platforms, have long dogged spam production, making it harder to start new Blogger blogs or open more free email accounts, and spammers have been working assiduously on different fronts to overcome them.
In 2007, rabies cases in dogs and humans were at their highest recorded levels; they have declined dramatically thanks to vaccination efforts supported by another Gates Foundation — funded program.
We handle cells derived from two species (human and dog) and from healthy donors and individuals affected by neuromuscular diseases.
Voice - sensitive regions in the dog and human brain are revealed by comparative fMRI.
This presentation will also address the ability to study species differences in toxicity by comparing data from rat, dog, and human Liver - Chip systems.
By identifying and treating gene mutations in dogs, his research moves us closer to gene therapy that could one day be used to manage and prevent glaucoma in humans.
Over 1,400 rock art panels showing almost 7,000 animals (ranging from lions and leopards to gazelle and wild donkeys) have been found during the study's three - year run, but these dogs might be the most exciting find because they give us clues to when and why dogs were domesticated by humans.
While the cancer in dogs shares characteristics with humans, there are differences in the likelihood of the cancer metastasizing and the tissue of the prostate.ANCHOR However, by studying the prostate gland in dogs, Charles Huggins discovered that the growth of tumours was dependant on the natural hormones of the body.
You mean to tell me that people borrowed precious money, people paid for and got paid to research for countless hours, to poke, prod and engorge humans with various foods — some with whole grains, others with soy by - products, others with pork dogs and who knows what else?
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