Sentences with phrase «more dog domestication»

The more dog domestication, the fewer deaths we will have due to rabies.

Not exact matches

Researchers concluded that the brow raises made even older dogs look puppylike and friendly, a trait that would have made them more appealing to humans during their millennia - long domestication.

Wolves were domesticated more than 15,000 years ago and it is widely assumed that the ability of domestic dogs to form close relationships with humans stems from changes during the domestication process.

The work could rewrite the thinking about some of the earliest days of dog domestication, and it suggests that scientists interested in the beginnings of the human - canine relationship should be paying more attention to early Arctic peoples.

Posted June 4 at arXiv.org, the new study finds that interbreeding between dogs and wolves after domestication has made wolves in certain locations seem more closely related to dogs than they actually are.

However, our analysis of a more diverse sample set that includes village dogs confirms only 18 of these loci as putative domestication targets, the remainder are likely associated with breed formation (Supplementary Table 19 and Supplementary Note 14).

«Rabbit domestication was likely a more direct process when compared to other species, such as dog, pigs, and chicken, which were geographically widespread,» he said.

Although this rock art gives us a better sense of how humans interacted with dogs during this time, it's possible that dogs were domesticated much earlier — possibly between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago — and the domestication process maybe have happened more than once.

In an earlier study, vonHoldt had identified a gene that's mutated more often in dogs than wolves — one that possibly led to their domestication.

One or more of the tracking, stalking, pointing, herding / driving, attacking, killing and retrieving behaviors have been selectively augmented or even eliminated in certain dog breeds through the domestication process.

While there is considerably fascinating research about the human - dog interaction and the domestication of the dog, in this section I am suggestion a more metaphorical, perhaps poetic relationship than the biologist and ethnologists might be comfortable in describing.

While it is indisputable that certain breeds of dogs do bite more than others it's also hard to argue with thousands of year's worth of domestication.

But domestication has made our dogs» digestive systems a little more sensitive.

«When you look at the molecular signatures of domestication, there are 10 times more in dogs than in cats.»

The domestication of dogs and their co-habitation with mankind has a long history going back more than an estimated 20,000 years.

Despite the work of feral dog specialists, rehabilitation specialists, veterinarians, and other caregivers, Ghost had a deep fear of humans and all that involved domestication — leashes, collars, grooming tools, and more.

Also, companion animals like pet dogs are more prone to canine eye problems, because they become more dependent upon the owners due to domestication.