Sentences with phrase «domesticated dog species»

The problem is that domesticated dog species are significantly removed from wolves.

Not exact matches

Our results provide strong evidence for complex communication directed at humans in a species that was domesticated primarily for agricultural production, and show similarities with animals bred to become pets or working animals, such as dogs and horses.»

«As the first species to be domesticated, dogs have a very ancient and very profound link to humans that affected both of us.»

It is known that the dog was the first domesticated species.

Encounters between dogs and less domesticated species can sometimes be cute and heartwarming (see dog and goose) or violent and ugly (see dog and javelina).

Dogs are the oldest domesticated species and have a uniquely intimate role in the lives of millions of people, Wynne said.

Out of the millions of species in existence, very few animals have ever been truly domesticated, and of that select list only dogs have reached to status of «man's best friend.»

The dog was the first species to be domesticated by man and scientists estimate that this happened sometime around 9,000 years ago.

Although the production of chemical signals, their perception through olfactory processes, and the behavioral response to these signals plays a central role in domesticated cat communication and behavior (especially social behavior), the function, scope and importance of these abilities are often not given the same level of attention dedicated to other domesticated species (e.g. dogs or pigs), which may lead some to erroneously underestimate the significance of this communication modality in cats.

Please check the appropriate box if your dog has ever shown any of the following aggressive behaviors toward men, women, children, dog, or another domesticated animal species (cats or livestock, not «small pets» like hamsters, guinea pigs, etc.) Do not include aggressive behaviors directed toward a veterinarian or groomer.

Has your dog ever attacked another domesticated animal species (cats or livestock but not «small pets» like hamsters, guinea pigs, etc.) resulting in severe injury or death to another domesticated animal?

As different as all of these dog breeds are, they all diverge from the same species which was domesticated somewhere between 14,000 and 17,000 years ago.

Has your dog ever attacked another domesticated animal species (such as cats or livestock but not «small pets» like hampsters, guinea pigs, etc.) resulting in severe injury or death to the other animal?

Many people do not even know that ferrets are a domesticated species, bred and raised like dogs and cats.

Studies have indicated that dogs are the oldest domesticated species, and likely originated even well before their first appearance in the archeological record 15,000 years ago where, the initial change to the diagnostic phenotype of domestic dogs was perhaps due in part to selection pressures associated with the transition from hunter gatherer to more sedentary lifestyles.

Dominance applies to domesticated dogs because virtually all species of animals have to have some way to manage limited resources.

Since dogs are domesticated, scientists didn't think they could prove anything about how natural species behaved and have only really begun studying them in the last 15 years.