Sentences with phrase «in breeding groups»

They found that although the presence of non-breeding adults in breeding groups is not associated with contrasts in climate, non-breeders commonly play an important role in raising the offspring of breeders in species living in dry environments.

If your dog is in a breed group at risk of hip dysplasia your vet might recommend radiographs even though your pet is not showing any signs.

They are the largest terrier in the breed group, standing tall at 27 inches and weighing between 40 and 60 pounds.

But dogs in this breed group can range from the large Airedale Terrier to the petite Norwich Terrier.

As a National Certified Master Groomer, Suzanne Grande NCMG has proven her skills in pet grooming winning multiple awards at National Dog Groomers assoc. competitions in all breed groups.

We were wondering if anyone in your breed group would be interested in participating in an Adult Dog CHD OFA biomarker study.

Not exact matches

The Visionaire Group is just one of a new breed of innovative digital media companies that are thriving in Los Angeles.

That is Nordic American Breed, that has a big dividend boost... I don't like the group but this is the one to be in.»

Proceeds from this year's event will benefit the International Arts and Philanthropy Foundation and Breed Life, a group that aims to facilitate the donation of human organs to people in need.

That self - love lurks in even our best enterprises is evident in the fact that such praying groups, which ought to be sources of humility and the democratic spirit, can become breeding grounds for the attitude of «holier than thou.»

Combativeness may be in a soldier driving his bayonet into the abdomen of an enemy or it may be in a group of scientists like those who are now stalking yellow fever in the five places on this planet where it breeds, determined to win a great fight for humanity.

In fact, the former group, which attracts hundreds to its annual meeting, is a primary breeding ground for the new postconservative mood.

(breeding and education designed to produce only the best individual types) and racial eugenics (the grouping or intermixing of different ethnic types being not left to chance but effected as a controlled process in the proportions most beneficial to humanity as a whole), both, as I well know, present apparently insuperable difficulties, administrative and psychological.

Allen believes «a new breed of denomination» which will allow broad freedoms will arise in the next eight to ten years, centered on the moderate state conventions and other groups.

All pork products must be purchased from suppliers that house breeding pigs in groups rather than gestation crates by December 31, 2018.

Puckett is just as fixated on other racial groups — «We might call a spook a spook, unless he's a spick» — and he also knows that a white running back is a dying breed in the NFL.

Bull terriers, Staffordshire bull terriers and pit bull terriers are among the most frequent offenders, with around one in three of the dogs carrying out attacks from this bull breed group.

Inwoof, an advocacy group for local dog owners, hopes that an area for smaller - breed dogs will be added to Homer's Run in Inwood Hill Park in the coming months, thanks to funds secured by City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez.

Professor Hannes Lohi's research group at the University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Center, Finland, has identified a mutation in CNGB1 gene, causing progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) in the Phalene and Papillon dog breeds.

Reproductive isolation is the key to understanding how new species form, and many types of barriers can divide a population and split it into two different groups: geographic (such as a mountain range, desert, ocean or river), morphological (a change in coloration, body type or reproductive organs), behavioral (a change in breeding season, mating calls or courtship actions), and others.

Many animal species, including humans, live and breed in groups with complex social organizations.

Hosken bred 12 generations of beetles to create groups in which all the males had either small, large or average - sized mandibles.

Researchers with the group pioneered methods of breeding peregrines in captivity and releasing them into the wild; such techniques have since been adopted widely by biologists trying to bring other wildlife species back from the brink of extinction.

Cooperative breeding, when adults in a group team up to care for offspring, is not a survival strategy for animals living in extreme environments.

In turn, non-breeders may gain future benefits from helping because it increases their chance that their group will survive adverse years, giving them a chance of inheriting the breeding position.

This species can breed in pairs and in groups of about 6 to 12 birds, which allows a comparison between the two strategies.

The secret, the team reports in the 17 August issue of Science, was that eggs laid by females in cooperative groups were 5 % smaller than those laid by females who bred in pairs, and their yolks had 12 % less lipids and 13 % less protein.

This conclusion is bolstered by the authors» analysis of data from a neighboring population of the same species, which revealed that females that bred in groups had a 30 % lower mortality rate than those that bred in pairs.

Because only one breeding pair are the parents of over 80 percent of the young in a meerkat group, this effect should benefit the next generation as well.

For example, we can observe that when males are significantly bigger than females in modern primates, males are likely to live in groups with breeding access to several females.

N. Pulcher lives in family groups with up to 25 individuals, with one breeder pair and several helpers participating in territory defence and raising of offspring — known as «cooperative breeding».

And even Marino would agree that releasing dolphins bred in captivity would be signing their death warrant; dolphins need social groups to survive, and captive dolphins are not used to dealing with predators or getting food.

Under the program, a small group of carefully selected types of red wolves, considered to be pure red wolves based on their appearance and the lack of «coyote - like» traits in their offspring, were bred through mating in controlled environments.

In contrast, the «optimal skew» model posits that the dominant female fully controls subordinate breeding, and allows them to breed only insofar as it entices them to stay with the group and assist in rearing her own litterIn contrast, the «optimal skew» model posits that the dominant female fully controls subordinate breeding, and allows them to breed only insofar as it entices them to stay with the group and assist in rearing her own litterin rearing her own litters.

A group of Reed's colleagues went to the Appalachian Mountains to jolt the testosterone levels among breeding males in a population of small, two - toned songbirds known as dark - eyed juncos.

Group foraging in cooperative animals provides predators with advantages over prey, but for less cooperative colonial - breeding predators, like the little penguin, the benefits of group foraging are less clear due to the potential for competition between pengGroup foraging in cooperative animals provides predators with advantages over prey, but for less cooperative colonial - breeding predators, like the little penguin, the benefits of group foraging are less clear due to the potential for competition between penggroup foraging are less clear due to the potential for competition between penguins.

Morocco's decision to halt the project comes in the wake of a campaign coordinated by the Bellerive Foundation, a Geneva - based conservation group that opposes captive breeding of seals.

Professor Hannes Lohi's research group at the University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Center has identified a mutation in ITGA10 gene, causing chondrodysplasia in two dog breeds, the Norwegian Elkhound and the Karelian Bear Dog.

After DDT was banned in 1972, the Peregrine Fund and other conservation groups began breeding peregrine falcons in captivity and releasing young birds at carefully selected cliffs.

In a related development, HSUS yesterday sued APHIS after the group requested, under the FOIA, inspection reports for three puppy breeding facilities where the group says it had conducted undercover investigations and found serious animal abuses.

The finding of individuals at chick or near fledging stage (known from their bone surface texture) shows that Hakawai melvillei was breeding in New Zealand and was not migratory, unlike many birds of this group today.

Although both groups of rats took the same amount of drug, the two breeds differed dramatically in how likely they were to seek out cocaine repeatedly.

The lack of genetic differences in Namibian elephants could also be attributed to their long distance migrations; large home ranges; recent increases in population size and range; or gene flow provided by male elephants breeding with different groups of female elephants.

The horses, all one to two years old, are being monitored by the Global Management Plan Working Group, created in 1990 to improve the breeding of the species.

When the results of the trials were subjected to statistical analysis, the team found a close linear correlation between the degree to which a species engages in cooperative breeding and the likelihood that members of the group would help fellow animals get the food treat.

While the techniques draw from the same pool of knowledge, and travel together in scientific circles, many environmental groups do not oppose molecular breeding, while stridently critiquing current GM crops, according to Marco Contiero, the European biotech policy director for the environmental group Greenpeace.

To do this, they used specially bred flies with genes that could be turned off in groups of nerve cells at high temperature.

In late 2010, van Schaik and Burkart comprehensively reviewed all the available data on cognitive abilities in three groups of New World monkeys: the cooperatively breeding callitrichids, a group including marmosets and tamarins; capuchins, which occasionally share care of their young; and squirrel monkeys, which are independent breeders with little shared supporIn late 2010, van Schaik and Burkart comprehensively reviewed all the available data on cognitive abilities in three groups of New World monkeys: the cooperatively breeding callitrichids, a group including marmosets and tamarins; capuchins, which occasionally share care of their young; and squirrel monkeys, which are independent breeders with little shared supporin three groups of New World monkeys: the cooperatively breeding callitrichids, a group including marmosets and tamarins; capuchins, which occasionally share care of their young; and squirrel monkeys, which are independent breeders with little shared support.

Researchers who had bred a group of mice in hopes of learning more about a brain hormone that stimulates appetite got a bit of a surprise when they saw that the rodents would suddenly collapse and...

For example, if I'm studying lymphoma, and I know that a subset of Asian breeds shares a common lineage, I could group data from those breeds together, rather than considering them separately, in order to gain more statistical power,» she said.