Sentences with phrase «domesticated dogs about»

Since humans domesticated dogs about 10,000 years ago, and cats about 8,000 years ago, the bond between humans and animals has been growing, with powerful benefits for both.

Not exact matches

God is not domesticated and spoken familiarly about as, for example, about one's cat or dog.

Scientists used to think that dogs were domesticated toward the end of the Ice Age, about 14,000 years ago (SN Online: 7/22/10).

But that thought only proved how little I knew about the origins of dogs and other domesticated animals.

When talking about the reasons for domesticating animals, why assume that dogs were not eaten by early humans (28 May, p 32)?

When talking about the reasons for domesticating animals, why assume that dogs were not eaten by early humans (28 May,...

That dogs evolved from gray wolves is well accepted but there's much debate about where and when man's best friend was first domesticated.

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.

Domesticated dogs ovulate only about once or twice a year.

It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best - known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.

Each of these breeds started in the past 200 - 300 years, and their founders must have included dogs that trace back to the same male ancestors deeper in dog evolutionary time, stretching all the way back to when dogs were first domesticated in Central Asia about 15,000 years ago.

Some argue they were domesticated about 15,000 years ago in Europe, while others believe dogs were domesticated around 12,500 years ago in Asia.

It is estimated that dogs have domesticated and separated from gray wolves about 15,000 years ago, when they started frequenting human settlements.

There is no way of knowing for sure exactly what constituted the diet of the ancestors of the modern, domesticated, dog and cat, but we can estimate that it consisted of about 85 to 90 % meat (primarily from whole prey) along with small amounts of fish, eggs, scavenged grasses, berries, nuts and other vegetation.

How about small domesticated pets like dogs?

«All domesticated dogs descended from a single grey wolf about 15,000 years ago,» says Lisa Peterson, spokesperson for the American Kennel Club (AKC).

Recent molecular evidence shows that dogs are descended from the gray wolf, domesticated about 130,000 years ago.

Pet Overpopulation: Learn about the history of domesticated cats and dogs, the concept and causes of animal overpopulation, and the problems that a community faces when it has more domesticated animals than it can care for.

For more information about what is really in pet food, click here Current studies show that dogs were domesticated roughly 14,000 years ago, cats roughly 4,000 years ago.

About 15,000 years ago, according to anthropological records, the first domesticated dogs are noticed.

Of course, there is a lot of debate about what a dog's diet should look like with some experts saying domesticated dogs have evolved to eat starch, while others viciously accusing starch as being the basis for all chronic disease.

In hopes of learning more about the phenomenon, Allison compared his findings with 24 other data samples collected for animals ranging from domesticated dogs and cats to feral rats and chimpanzees used for research — and what it pointed to was quite troubling.

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.