Sentences with phrase «few modern breeds»
With the exception of a few modern breeds, dogs generally have a smaller overall body size than wolves.
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After a few attempts of releasing these captive - breed young falcons (including a release at Mass Audubon's Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln), the first modern falcon nest in Massachusetts was deemed successful in 1987.
Apart from a few private Northern European haplotypes, all modern horse breeds included in the study clustered into a roughly 700 - year - old haplogroup, transmitted to Europe by the import of Oriental stallions, they report.
«Our data therefore illuminate the enormous impact modern horse breeding strategies — characterized by strong selection of males and the import of Oriental stallions — during the past few hundred years had on Y chromosome diversity.»
The American cocker spaniel originated as a hunting breed, although few participate in that activity in modern times.