Sentences with phrase «grey wolves»

Normally, hunters targeting grey wolves would face prosecution for killing an endangered species, but authorities have decided that Troyer had mistakenly thought it was a coyote — an animal which can be hunted under state law.

Within weeks, grey wolves in the Northern Rockies will be on the business - end of high - powered hunting rifles.

I think I'll suggest re-introduction of grey wolves here in Ferndale as a means of controlling the deer.

You will see the lives of grey wolves in all its glory.

Fossils show them to have been a little larger than modern grey wolves (Canis lupus), weighing between 110 and 150 lbs (50 — 68 kg) and measuring up to 25 -30 inches tall (63 — 76 cm).

Thanks to scientific research, we have known for quite some time that domesticated dogs, the furry friends we love like family, descended from wolves and more specifically from grey wolves.

As a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar I investigated interactions between grey wolves, coyotes and red foxes across North America.

All dogs are believed to have descended from grey wolves, which have been around for approximately one million years.

If you're a dog person, you might have a similar question: how did the smiling, floppy - tongued animal tracking dirt into your house originate from the reserved, cautious grey wolves of the world?

Unlike grey wolves, which are generally monogamous, (breed only with one partner) with females going into heat in late winter so that pups are born in early spring and have time to grow strong before winter hits again, dogs have undergone substantial changes when it comes to reproduction.

Those kinds of close interactions with corpses or bodily fluids of other animals is normally a strong breeding ground for parasites, especially considering that grey wolves are wild animals and are much more prone to having different bacteria they can pass on without any visible symptoms.

The open - access journal International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife has published a study detailing the connection between the breeding patterns of parasites in grey wolves and in hunting dogs.

The first group resided mainly in Eastern Germany, which has had a high population of grey wolves since 2000 and it has continued to grow.

New research from the Berlin - based Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) has shown that populations of grey wolves have little to no effect on the parasite burden of hunting dogs.

The researchers from Leibniz - IZW also used a previous study which identified the most common parasites found in grey wolves.

In particular, they focused on a Sarcocystis, a protazoan tapeworm often found in grey wolves.

Recent genetic studies, however, have shown that dogs descend from an extinct genus that diverged from modern - day grey wolves about 40,000 years ago.

Ottway (Neeson) leads the group of men, who are forced to survive against a pack of grey wolves who are stalking them.

After a plane crashes in the pristine Alaskan wilderness, a group of survivors must battle the harsh elements and a pack of hungry grey wolves — some, to say the least, are luckier than others.

The ancestry of two species of North American wolves, representing admixture between grey wolves and coyotes (vonHoldt et al. 2016), has been stirring up questions about how admixed species should be treated in conservation policies.

Researchers examined DNA data from grey wolves - the ancestors of the domestic dog — to determine how much their gene pool was diluted with the DNA of domestic canines, and how widespread the process of hybridisation is.

Despite the evidence of hybridisation among Eurasian grey wolves, the wolf populations have remained genetically distinct from dogs, suggesting that such cross-breeding does not diminish distinctiveness of the wolf gene pool if it occurs at low levels.

The presence of grey wolves in German forests has little influence on the parasite burden of hunting dogs.

Populations of big carnivores such as brown bears, Eurasian lynx, grey wolves and wolverines are stable or increasing in a substantial part of Europe.

For example just a small number of sea otters can determine urchin numbers, or a few grey wolves determine the size of bison, deer or elk populations.

Her results show that the wolves in these states are now genetically distinct from the grey wolves which populated the area before humans cleared the forests (Biology Letters, DOI: 10.1098 / rsbl.2007.0354).

Not being a recognisable species could lose the red wolf its conservation status, despite being the only carrier of genes from extinct southern grey wolves

About 1 million acres of the border region are federally protected wildlife areas, he said, and threatened and endangered species include Sonoran pronghorn antelopes, Mexican grey wolves, Gila monsters, ocelots and jaguars.

IN JANUARY 1995, grey wolves returned to Yellowstone National Park, almost 70 years after they had been exterminated by an overenthusiastic predator - control programme.

Vladimir Dinets examined the unlikely friendship between striped hyenas (Hyaena hyaena) and grey wolves (Canis lupus) in the southern Negev, Israel.

The focus of my research is population structure and gene flow in North American arctic canids: grey wolves and arctic foxes.

What do shingleback lizards, budgerigars and Mexican grey wolves all have in common?

Ashwin Alankar of Janus Henderson published his latest article «Brace for Steeper Yield Curves as the Wolves Return,» which highlighted grey wolf's role in maintaining a delicate balance in Yellowstone's ecosystem by keeping population of herbivores in - check, which in - turn reduced risks of overgrazing of young brush and trees in the park.

So Dinets and Eligulashvili were surprised when they observed striped hyenas — the little known, mostly solitary relatives of the better - known spotted hyenas of Africa — in the middle of grey wolf packs, moving together through a maze of canyons in the southern part of the Negev desert.

THE iconic grey wolf of the wild, wild west is the subject of a bitter row in the US.

For example, the red fox is an ambush forager with vertical slit pupils, whereas the grey wolf is an active forager with round pupils

Since the year 2000, the Eurasian grey wolf, Canis lupus lupus, has spread across Germany.

What remains a mystery is how the grey wolf's DNA spawned so much canine variety.

Such diversity led Darwin to think that domestic dogs must have evolved from several wild canines, such as jackals, coyotes and wolves, but in fact we now know that all breeds descended from one species, the grey wolf.

Conservationists are debating, for example, whether the western grey wolf should have been removed from the Endangered Species list because genetic studies suggest some of them are wolf - coyote hybrids.

Efforts to bring the grey wolf back have been largely successful and in 2003 its protection was downgraded.

This call set contains 1,815,911 variants that are likely either private to New World wolves or arose in the grey wolf (Canis lupus) ancestral population, and thus is the least biased with regard to their ascertainment in Old World wolves and dogs.

The results could have important conservation implications for the grey wolf, which is a keystone species — meaning it is vital to the natural balance of the habitat it occupies.

The international study showed that around 60 per cent of Eurasian grey wolf genomes carried small blocks of the DNA of domestic dogs, suggesting that wolves cross-bred with dogs in past generations.

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The quest for salmon is not an easy one for this family, which encounters minor peril in avalanches, a rising tide, a lurking grey wolf and even two of their fellow bears.

Beattie oversaw the reintroduction of the grey wolf into the Yellowstone National Park.

Dr Boyko said that all the dogs sampled in the study have grey wolf DNA so he is not questioning that dogs descended from wolves.

Dogs (canis familiaris) are the descendants of wolves and are classified as a subspecies of the grey wolf (canis lupus).

Your Puppy shares his eating anatomy with the grey wolf - which means he's EVOLVED for a diet rich and varied in fresh meat, protein and fat - not highly processed carbohydrates and starches.