Sentences with phrase «dog and wolves»

It concerns the genetic differences between dogs and wolves.

Some believe the breed was created as a cross between an earlier breed of dog and a wolf, though there is some contention on the subject.

And nature designed them exactly as you see them in wild dogs and wolves for a very good reason.

DNA in this ancient Irish dog's temporal bone is distinct from modern dogs and wolves.

We will discuss behavioral, lifestyle and genetic differences between domestic dogs and wolves and how this impacts dog - owner interactions.

Both say that many more samples, especially of ancient dogs and wolves, are needed.

They carried out several behavioural tests on dogs and wolves.

Dogs and wolves do not do this routinely, only in very specific instances that usually involve aggression of some kind.

In nature there are no synthetic supplements, so dogs and wolves derive their complete nutritional needs naturally, by consuming whole prey animals.

This breed was created to use for war dog and wolf hunting, thus they have hunting aptitude but only when needed.

The underlying meaning is that because dogs and wolves are the same species, they must behave the same way.

Those myths link dogs and wolves to youthful male war bands, warfare and death.

In a second study, when dogs and wolves are pretty much given an impossible task, dogs look to people, actually working to get the human's attention to help them out.

A new study put dogs and wolves head to head in the intelligence department.

In nature, dogs and wolves meet their nutritional needs naturally by consuming whole prey animals and whole fish.

Check this article out for more information on the similarities and differences between dogs and wolves.

Food requirement of dogs and wolves are similar, because they're relatives.

Commercial dog food is frankly different than the diet of wild dogs and wolves.

Researchers used it, in conjunction with the complete genomes of several modern dogs and wolves, to calculate a genetic mutation rate for canines.

Too much emphasis has been placed on comparing the similarities of domestic dogs and wolves and not enough on recognizing the significant differences between these 2 species.

Dogs and wolves do not do this routinely - only in very specific instances - that usually involve aggression of some kind.

Select boys of the Srubnaya, or Timber Grave, culture joined youth war bands in winter rites, where they symbolically became dogs and wolves by consuming canine flesh, contend David Anthony and Dorcas Brown, both of Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y..

In their studies, the researchers also found minor genetic contributions from crossbreeding between dogs and wolves in other geographic regions, including the Middle East.

In the past we thought that dogs descended from modern wolves and although they are very closely related, scientists now believe that domesticated dogs and wolves share a common ancestor.

«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.»

Readers of his very popular books (he was the first U.S. author to make more than a million dollars) were entertained by stories about dogs and wolves and gold miners and ships and cannibals.

The problem with much of the research on domestication is that the focus has been on how dogs and wolves interact with humans.

Nicole Wilde, CPDT - KA, is a canine behavior specialist and the author of 10 books, including her latest, Hit by a Flying Wolf: True Tales of Rescue, Rehabilitation and Real Life with Dogs and Wolves.

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.

Based on where dogs and wolves searched for food after receiving some hints about its location, they showed that our domesticated, four - legged companions can not make the connection between cause and effect, but wolves can.

Perhaps ritual specialists at Krasnosamarskoe sacrificed dogs and wolves as part of healing ceremonies without eating the animals, Garwood proposes.

He and his colleagues compared dog and wolf DNA to learn which genes were important for domestication.

Research conducted by geneticist Robert Wayne has shown that DNA of domesticated dogs and wolves differs by only 1 %.

TBD: Even though they may look like alien life forms, they are Canids just like dogs and wolves.

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

Fossil dogs and wolves from Palaeolithic sites in Belgium, the Ukraine and Russia: osteometry, ancient DNA and stable isotopes.

ANCIENT RIFT DNA from a wolf (fossil jaw shown) that lived in Siberia some 35,000 years ago indicates dogs and wolves split earlier than thought.

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.

Some say that crossbreeding dogs and wolves creates hybrids so dangerous and untrustworthy around people that the practice should be outlawed.

One set of analyses published in the late 1990s suggested dogs and wolves diverged some 135,000 years ago in the Middle East.

Even if dogs and wolves now have differing brain chemical levels, researchers can't turn back time to watch the process unfold; they can only guess at how domestication happened.

«Having collected more than 1500 ancient dogs and wolves over the past few years, our lab has begun our next - generation sequencing effort.»

Monique Udell, an animal behaviorist at Oregon State University, Corvallis, says her own study of dog and wolf behavior, also presented at the meeting, supports Range's contention that dogs are waiting for orders.