Sentences with phrase «from wild ancestors»

Taking cues from their wild ancestors, cats love to climb trees; it makes them feel safe and, above it all, it's where they can get a good view of their world.

Otherwise, if pets run outside and put their noses in the lawn, they are simply exhibiting instinctual behavior passed down from wild ancestors.

West Siberian Laikas are known for retaining traits from their wild ancestors, the wolf, both physical and behavioral.

This trait comes from their wild ancestors who needed to avoid becoming another animal's prey.

The most popular theory says this is a trait carried down from their wild ancestors.

This substantial input of variation from wild ancestors has provided the raw material for phenotypic change, but unique development and genetic mechanisms may also have assisted the course of artificial selection.

That bowling ball of white meat in your oven is a far cry from its wild ancestors.

Scientists can do this because plants that have been cultivated and farmed as crops will change, or evolve, differently from their wild ancestors.

Both paths — scientists are still debating which was more likely for different animals — led to the creation of domesticated species or subspecies genetically distinct from their wild ancestors.

During their domestication from their wild ancestor the wolf to the pets we have today, dogs have developed a unique ability to work together with humans.

Created by breeding a German Shepherd with a European Wolf, this breed is far removed from its wild ancestor.

Not exact matches

Horses» wild ancestors are also extinct, but remains from the warrior steeds of Genghis Khan and medieval knights, the Romans» chariot horses and the mounts of the ancient Scythians, Greeks and Persians might fill in gaps in horse history and prehistory.

While at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, Cagan compared DNA from the tame rats and mink at Novosibirsk, and from other domesticated species, with DNA from aggressive counterparts and wild ancestors.

Legacy from our ancestors — limited diversity «In the domestication process for agriculture, our Neolithic ancestors domesticated a rather small portion of wild plants that had around them,» said Fowler.

In response to these pressures, weedy forms that evolved from the crop forms are taking on traits more like those of wild ancestors.

Modern corn, the author argues, had not one ancestor but two: it is derived from a cross between a primitive corn and a perennial form of the wild grass teosinte.

A genetic study shows that modern potatoes were cultivated from two wild ancestors, contradicting the straightforward story that has long been told.

In the wild, Wolbachia inserts can be found in fruit flies from Hawaii, Malaysia, Indonesia, and India, most likely due to a shared ancestor colonized long ago.

The evidence that the SWEET4c gene was selected during domestication was discovered by the team of Jeff Ross - Ibarra at UC Davis, while comparing SWEET4 sequences from modern maize against its wild ancestor Teosinte.

«It seems likely that these parasites co-evolved with African apes, suggesting that the ancestors of bonobos were infected, and implying that most wild - living communities of bonobos have somehow lost their malaria parasites,» said coauthor Paul Sharp, PhD, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Edinburgh.

The process of creating these tame foxes mirrors the way dogs are thought to have been domesticated from their wild wolf ancestors.

I love this quote from Quiet: «When our ancestors lived on the savannah, being watched intently meant only one thing: A wild animal was stalking us.

However, the essential oil derives from the seeds of its wild ancestor, also known as Queen Anne's Lace, which grows prolifically in hedges and fields, and should not be mistaken for the cheaper macerated carrot oil.

Our ancestors had a very active lifestyle that involved long hours of walking, running away from wild beasts, climbing tall trees for food as well as rest etc and thus enjoyed a healthy life.

Even if you cook every meal from scratch with organic ingredients, your ancestors ate what they could find and this included meat raised in the wild.

With a strong respect for sharks ingrained in their culture, some Hawaiian natives not only continue to respect sharks after losing limbs to them, but also take seeing them in the wild as a sign from an ancient ancestors spirit.

As always, though, Rockstar doesn't name - check so much as simply tip the cap to its favorite celluloid ancestors, from Once Upon a Time in the West (and its depiction of encroaching modernity sounding the old guard's death knell) and The Wild Bunch (especially during the game's later Mexican Civil War sequences) to, in the name of a budding oil community, There Will Be Blood.

People are always making these wild claims about how the new generation is different — but it takes longer than a decade or two to change a system that we inherited from our primate ancestors more than six million years ago.

On her family vacation from Chicago to Mexico City, Celaya («Lala») Reyes begins her journey from girl to young adult as she weaves together wild, beautiful, cruel, and tender stories of ancestors and family members and especially her connections with her papa and the Awful Grandmother.

The first says that moving their food away from its source to chow down in another location is a leftover behavior from your dog's wild ancestors that lived, hunted, and ate in packs.

Also, despite thousands of years of living alongside us, cats still retain the same instincts as their wild ancestors and are only «semi-domesticated,» according to a team of researchers from schools including Washington University School of Medicine and Texas A&M and published in the journal PNAS.

The basic behavior patterns of house cats are not much different from their wild cousins or their ancestors.

Your modern dog's odd behaviors are often holdover instincts from necessary activities performed by her wild ancestors.

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This is a carry - over from their ancestors who would hide pain to avoid becoming prey in the wild.

A house cat may be domesticated, but the digestive system isn't too far from their ancestors and wild relatives.

Reproduction in dogs is an ingrained cycle of the species from its wild canine ancestors.

The ancestors of our domestic canines, wolves and wild dogs, live in a pack, hunt as a team and raise their young with assistance from others within the family.

Our dogs have this built - in mechanism passed down to them from their ancestors in the wild.

But yes, I think that this general idea is probably one reason that socialization and fear periods have evolved the way that they have — they are a holdover from a social structure that made sense for their wild ancestors, with a closed social group and not much reason to be open to new things after reaching adulthood, even though these traits may no longer be adaptive in their current role as pets.

It is more likely an instinctual activity passed down from dog and cat ancestors in the wild that suffered far more than today's pets with intestinal parasites.

Some believe that kneading is a carry - over from their ancient feline ancestors in the wild, whose kneading was actually a practical way of tramping down grass or foliage to make a bed, and staking a claim on the area.

«Dogs» is a comprehensive, vivid account of the origin and evolution of canids — including wolves, foxes, coyotes, and wild dogs — from their common ancestors more than 40 million years ago.

Some domesticated animals get used to living in conditions different from their ancestors, even to a point where it may not be able to survive out in the wild anymore.

Marbled also occurs in a different form in the Bengal (above) through the interaction of wild - type spotting (from the Leopard Cat ancestor) and domestic - type classic tabby.

Developed by Flying Wild Hog, an independent Polish game developer, Hard Reset works with an unashamedly simple purpose in mind: to recreate the joys of old school shoot - em - up - style games for those of us who were too busy learning to walk and talk to fully appreciate its ancestors from the mid 1990s.