Sentences with phrase «in wild canids»

This teamwork is quite amazing and can still be observed in wild canids today.

In wild canids, this behavior can stimulate a mother wolf or fox to regurgitate the food that she's carried home to her pups in her stomach.

The population of heartworms not exposed to the drugs — heartworms living in wild canids such as wolves, foxes and coyotes, and in untreated domestic dogs — helps to dilute the heartworm gene pool, keeping the resistant genes from predominating.

Fasting is implemented by many raw feeders with great results, and mimics a condition seen commonly in wild canids.

Most inherited diseases are associated with inbreeding, so the diseases don't exist in wild canids and should be less common in feral dogs.

A study of foxes offers new insights into the brain changes that occur in wild canids as they become more tame, researchers report.

Not exact matches

In the two decades following the epidemic, wild canids died following CDV infection but fatal CDV was not observed in lions or spotted hyenas anymore, even though high prevalence of serum antibodies against CDV in some years indicated outbreaks of asymptomatic exposure to the virus in lions and hyenaIn the two decades following the epidemic, wild canids died following CDV infection but fatal CDV was not observed in lions or spotted hyenas anymore, even though high prevalence of serum antibodies against CDV in some years indicated outbreaks of asymptomatic exposure to the virus in lions and hyenain lions or spotted hyenas anymore, even though high prevalence of serum antibodies against CDV in some years indicated outbreaks of asymptomatic exposure to the virus in lions and hyenain some years indicated outbreaks of asymptomatic exposure to the virus in lions and hyenain lions and hyenas.

The CDV - H proteins from lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic had the rare amino acid combination 519I / 549H, only known from a few strains from non-canid hosts in the America II lineage, whereas all strains from domestic dogs and wild canids had common amino acid combinations frequently reported from CDV strains worldwide.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), conducted genetic analyses of CDV strains obtained from a range of carnivores between 1993 and 2012 and discovered that lethal CDV infections in lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic was caused by a rare and genetically distinct CDV strain with three rare mutations not present in any other Serengeti strain isolated from domestic dogs or wild canids.

The raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides), a wild canid found in East Asia and Europe, represents a potential wildlife reservoir for zoonotic diseases.

Detailed phylogenetic analyses of several virus genes, some of which used complete CDV genomes, revealed that strains from lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic were strongly distinct from those in domestic dogs and wild canids.

DD: Wild canids, indeed, ate other animals as prey, and many included fruits, grains and vegetables in their entrails, which were nutrient dense.

In the wild, canids have been known to cover massive areas of rough terrain and inhospitable wilderness without ever needing 2 pairs of shoes to protect their paws.

Animal by - products is a lump - all phrase for offal (organ meats and entrails), which are high in nutritional value and are the same portions of animal that wild canids and felids (and pet dogs and cats if they had to hunt) would eat first.

In fact, one of the first parts of prey that wolves and other wild canids often eat before peripheral muscle are portions of the intestinal tract, which (since their prey are usually herbivores) tend to be full of partially digested carbohydrates.

Barking is actually unique to dogs as wild canids do not vocalize in the same manner.

In general, we do have to be cautious about drawing parallels between the social behavior of wolves and other wild canids vs. dogs, because we know that there are important genetic behavioral differences — for example, feral dogs live in much looser social groups than wolves with members coming and going frequently, and do not have a strictly defined social hierarchIn general, we do have to be cautious about drawing parallels between the social behavior of wolves and other wild canids vs. dogs, because we know that there are important genetic behavioral differences — for example, feral dogs live in much looser social groups than wolves with members coming and going frequently, and do not have a strictly defined social hierarchin much looser social groups than wolves with members coming and going frequently, and do not have a strictly defined social hierarchy.

Heartworm disease is generally observed in domestic and wild canid populations.

Yes — fearfulness has been shown to be a very heritable trait in dogs, probably because it's a trait that has a lot of survival value for dogs that aren't fortunate enough to live as protected pets (as well as related wild canids, like foxes and wolves).

In the wild, other canids such as coyotes, wolves and foxes serve as hosts.

Descended from and related to wolves, the wild canids that live in social packs and cooperate in hunting and raising litters, dogs are at once alien creatures and highly adapted (and adaptable) human playmates and partners.

Mitochondrial DNA is a powerful marker for dating mammalian divergences and mitogenomes and has been used to examine both phylogeographic and evolutionary relationships in wild and domesticated animals, including canids [28 — 32].

Alves» team, which conducted a similar review dealing with primates earlier this year, found that 19 out of 35 known species of wild canid are employed in traditional medicine, making them among the most frequently used mammals worldwide.

Half of All Wild Canids Used in Traditional Medicine The practice dates back more than a thousand years, the BBC reports, with medieval manuscripts from Azerbaijan detailing the use of wolves, foxes, and jackals in medicinal treatments.

Such traditional medicinal practices, known to threaten primate species as well as tigers and bears, also pose a shocking danger to wild dogs: Half of all known wild canid species, including two endangered ones, are harvested for use in folk treatments.According to the BBC, a team of researchers led by Professor Romulo Alves of the State University of Paraiba in Brazil «found evidence that canids are used in the treatment of at least 28 medical conditions, including asthma, arthritis, back ache, bronchial illnesses, chicken pox, eczema, epilepsy, flu, kidney diseases, measles and mumps, as well as the treatment of stomach complaints, snake bites, and warts.»

And not to mention the indirect moral of the story: If felines and canids can get along in the wild, there may be hope for us primates yet.