Sentences with phrase «native island dogs»
Developed by crossing native island dogs with Mastiffs brought from Great Britain in the 19th century.
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WFAN was two years old when then program director Mark Mason decided to pair the Mad Dog in afternoon drive time with fellow Long Island native Mike Francesa, who before landing an on - air job at WFAN had worked as a researcher at CBS Sports, where he was sometimes referred to as Brent Musburger's brain.
Studies from islands including Flores, Sri Lanka, and others suggest that early colonizers often coexisted with native fauna, perhaps because their populations were smaller and their technology simpler, or because they did not introduce invasive species such as rats and dogs.
For each island, the researchers recorded the presence or absence of various native mammals, and of rats, cats, foxes, and wild dogs known as dingoes, which some scientists believe help control invasive predators.
They are native to the island of Shikoku, where they were used as guards and hunting dogs.
They are very powerful dogs native to the Canary Islands.
Believed to have originated on the island of Newfoundland, which is now part of Canada, it is thought that the Lab is the result of selective breeding between the now - extinct St. John's Water Dog, the Newfoundland, and native water dogs.
These dogs are an ancient breed native to the island of Sicily where they were valued for their intelligence and for their natural hunting ability.
The dispute echoes similar controversies that have dogged campaigns to eliminate predators, from seagulls to snakes, that threaten native species in isolated ecosystems such as those on islands.
(AAP) Tourists feeding and teasing dingoes on Fraser Island could lead to the extinction of the native dogs, an environmental group says.