Sentences with phrase «in domesticated dogs»

Dog tumours are, with the exception of accidents, the number one cause of death in domesticated dogs.

Pack behavior isn't limited to snarling wolves in the wild, though — it also manifests in domesticated dogs in a less aggressive manner.

Breeding has resulted in unique shapes and colors in domesticated dogs.

Poop eating is very common behavior in domesticated dogs, it is referred to as coprophagy which means eating of feces or dung.

Canine Distemper was at one time the leading cause of deaths in domesticated dogs.

may indicate that rudimentary forms of empathy could be present in domesticated dogs.»

JUDGE VICTOR E. BIANCHINI, San Diego, CA A pit bull is the closest thing to a wild animal there is in a domesticated dog.

Not exact matches

The 25 - person staff lets a variety of pets roam the office, including dogs, a cat who lived in - house for a year while its owners moved, and even a full - fledged, domesticated wolf.

Much of their work focuses on the house mouse (Mus musculus), which evolved to be commensal with humans: The mice are not domesticated like dogs or sheep, but they are dependent on living in and around a human settlement.

WASHINGTON — A trio of dogs buried at two ancient human sites in Illinois lived around 10,000 years ago, making them the oldest known domesticated canines in the Americas.

Scientists agree that dogs stem from wolves, but where, when and how many times dogs were domesticated — passing down tameness and other traits over generations — has been rethought many times in the last few years (SN: 7/8/17, p. 20).

That idea contrasts with a hypothesis put forward last year that dogs were domesticated separately in Europe and East Asia, with the Asian dogs eventually replacing the European mutts (SN: 7/9/16, p. 15).

Our results provide strong evidence for complex communication directed at humans in a species that was domesticated primarily for agricultural production, and show similarities with animals bred to become pets or working animals, such as dogs and horses.»

Dogs were domesticated around 16,000 years ago in China, perhaps for meat.

Another study published last year concluded that dogs may have been domesticated in both Europe and East Asia.

The find may shed light on why dogs were domesticated in the first place.

The finding may help explain why people domesticated dogs in the first place: to put them to work.

And Pitulko thinks dogs could have been domesticated independently in this region.

At one level it is Canis lupus dingo, a subspecies of dog that arrived in Australia from Asia 3500 years ago as a domesticated animal that later reverted to living in wild packs.

In dogs, which have been domesticated for over 17,000 years, there were 71 shared parasites and pathogens, and in the 11,000 year association between humans and cattle, 34 have accumulateIn dogs, which have been domesticated for over 17,000 years, there were 71 shared parasites and pathogens, and in the 11,000 year association between humans and cattle, 34 have accumulatein the 11,000 year association between humans and cattle, 34 have accumulated.

«The burden of proof is higher» to support a scenario in which multiple domesticated dog lineages emerged independently in different parts of the planet, he says.

An extinct wolf's DNA has pushed back the origin of dogs by more than 10,000 years, but when humans domesticated them is still lost in the mists of time

ON THE HUNT In a new book, anthropologist Pat Shipman argues that ancient humans hastened the demise of Neandertals when they domesticated wolves and used dogs in big game huntIn a new book, anthropologist Pat Shipman argues that ancient humans hastened the demise of Neandertals when they domesticated wolves and used dogs in big game huntin big game hunts.

Considering how long it took for dogs to be domesticated — the oldest doglike skeletal remains were found in central Russia and date to 15,000 years ago, perhaps a million years after the first wolves appeared — the foxes settled down quickly.

In May, Columbia University Medical Center pathologist W. Ian Lipkin and his colleagues identified a hepatitis C — like virus in dogs for the first time, suggesting the disease may have jumped to humans through contact with man's best friend 500 to 1,000 years ago, long after dogs were first domesticateIn May, Columbia University Medical Center pathologist W. Ian Lipkin and his colleagues identified a hepatitis C — like virus in dogs for the first time, suggesting the disease may have jumped to humans through contact with man's best friend 500 to 1,000 years ago, long after dogs were first domesticatein dogs for the first time, suggesting the disease may have jumped to humans through contact with man's best friend 500 to 1,000 years ago, long after dogs were first domesticated.

Once domesticated, dogs proved valuable in myriad ways: guards, hunters, shepherds, pack animals, sled pullers.

A 2015 study in Genome Research, for example, estimated that 25 percent of modern Eurasian wolf DNA actually comes from interbreeding with domesticated dogs.

In fact, since domesticated dogs soon reach sexual maturity and reproduce rapidly, an early human family would have been overrun by a pack of carnivores if some puppies were not culled.

Our domesticated predators — dogs and cats — also have a share in the mayhem.

That earlier work found more genetic diversity in East Asian dog breeds, indicating that the breeds are older and probably represent the earliest domesticated dogs.

Taken together, the data suggest that humans domesticated dogs in Asia more than 14,000 years ago, and that a small subset of these animals eventually migrated west through Eurasia, probably with people.

Researchers say dogs were domesticated first in Europe from a lineage of gray wolves that no longer exists

This is why a domesticated canine can be referred to as dog in English, hond in Dutch, and inu in Japanese — and why it takes hard work to learn any language.

In the second scenario, the Botai horses didn't survive, and were replaced by horses domesticated elsewhere, creating at least two centers of horse domestication (as there may have been for dogs, cats, and other animals).

But here's the twist: Archaeologists previously had found the remains of dogs in Germany that may be more than 16,000 years old, suggesting that dogs had already been domesticated in Europe by the time the Asian canines got there.

This week in Science, researchers report that genetic analysis of hundreds of canines reveals that dogs may have been domesticated twice, once in Asia and once in Europe or the Near East, although European ancestry has mostly vanished from today's dogs.

This paedomorphic trait is retained by adults of some breeds in many domesticated mammals, including dogs, cattle, goats, and rabbits.

Previous scans of domesticated genomes have revealed an accumulation of deleterious mutations in rice (62, 63), tomatoes (64), and dogs (4).

Dogs may have been domesticated independently in Asia and Europe from two separate wolf populations, according to a new study led by the University of...

The earliest confirmed domesticated dog in China was found in the early Neolithic (7000 — 5800 BCE) Jiahu site in Henan Province.

They might all be related to the Israeli wolf, for instance, because maybe dogs were domesticated in the Middle East.

Despite a reunion straight out of Lassie Come Home, a violent animated sequence, in which Beth sees her domesticated pet engaged in the dog eat dog world of the wilderness, exposes a gap that the film doesn't quite cover up.

If you didn't get enough smart ass canines in Marmaduke, than Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore will surely satiate your need to watch domesticated pets act like human beings.

A similar question is raised in the animated feature The Secret Life of Pets: What, exactly, do dogs and cats and birds and other domesticated animals do when their human owners head out for the day?

Ahead of its release in May, Z2 has released a preview of Legend # 1, the first issue in a new series from Samuel Sattin and Chris Kohler where dogs and cats rule a post-apocalyptic world; check it out here... What if a biological terror agent wiped out most of humanity, and our domesticated animals were -LSB-...]

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.

Due to mass vaccination of domesticated dogs, CIH has decreased dramatically in North America, and therefor has become less of a hazzard.

The authors of the journal say the way in which humans domesticated the dog is vaguely understood.

Due to mass vaccination of domesticated dogs, CIH has decreased dramatically in North America, and therefor has become less of a hazard..

Though we think of wild wolves as subsisting entirely on the flesh of the prey animals they manage to catch, in reality, both wild wolves and domesticated dogs are omnivores — they are capable of eating both animal and plant foods.