Sentences with phrase «number of breeds by»

You can probably even identify a decent number of breeds by picture alone.

Not exact matches

And just as we no longer countenance slavery, which both Old and New Testaments regarded as normal, so we also no longer countenance the use of female slaves, concubines and captives as sexual toys or breeding machines by their male owners, which Leviticus 19:20 f., II Samuel 5:13 and Numbers 31:17 - 20 permitted — and as many American slave owners did slightly over 100 years ago.

Compiled by Dave DeWitt From The Complete Chile Pepper Book Glossary of Specialized Pepper Terms Not included here are the names of the U.S. cultivars, which, after more than a century of breeding, number in the thousands and are too many to list.

By 1952, specially bred meat chickens («broilers») surpassed farm chickens as the number one source of chicken meat in the United States.

In a bottom - line result, the researchers concluded that protection increased the number of breeding pairs at Voyageurs by 37 percent; other factors accounted for the rest of the increase.

About half of large carnivores further regulate their numbers by only letting certain group members breed.

They also plan to improve breeding programs by ensuring parental lines have the maximum number of repeats available in a given genotype, and to select for new variants with additional copies that may show superior resistance.

His solution is to group the would - be breeding stock by families, with each cage containing a number of sister chickens.

Breeding has also reduced the number of unpopped kernels by as much as 75 percent.

The society's mission was to protect Iran's native breeds, and it bought all of Louise's Caspian horses, which by then numbered 23.

It describes the process of reproductive success among organisms, defined by the number of successful offspring which reach breeding age.

While breeding and reintroduction programs are becoming more effective by providing more pandas to bolster the wild populations, conservationists believe that learning more about the importance of personality combinations in breeding success could ultimately help boost the number of pandas even further — not only in accredited zoos, but also in their habitats in China.

Researchers determined the whales» current population numbers by comparing photographic shots of humpbacks in their North Pacific feeding grounds (around the Pacific Rim from California to Kamchatka) to images taken of the whales in their southern, tropical breeding areas — some as far as 3000 miles away.

Compared to 1990, the number of tests involving animals bred with harmful genetic defects rose by 28 000, to 170 000, and transgenic creatures were subjected to 62 000 procedures, 14 000 more than in 1990.

Big Brown, winner of the 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, was bred by the numbers in this formula on Knapp's Monticule Farm in Lexington.

Bred, irradiated, and released by the billions, these mutants outcompete fertile males, reducing the number of pests in the next generation.

This has been shown to have a small but significant impact on population size by increasing the number of breeding birds, as well as influencing the sex ratio.

When revived and breeding, they will enrich the ferret gene pool by increasing the number of founders of the current population from 7 to 9.

Producing offspring is not the only purpose of online zoo dating, by carefully managing the breeding of the small number of animals in zoo programs, world zoos aim to retain 90 % of the genetic diversity of a species found in the wild over a 100 years.

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Old number 95 slumps into depression when he and his generation of racecars are pushed off the track by a new breed of high - performance contenders.

Not only will the disease reduce the global numbers, but the ones whose DNA is changed by the disease will become a stronger breed of human.

While a number of dog breeds are excluded from renters insurance coverage, most canines and other pets are covered by a renter's personal liability protection.

The statistical revolutions that have overtaken sports, business and markets have bred suspicion of any observation or assertion not backed up by hard numbers.

Hawaii has two pieces of legislation pending that would set limits on the number of breeding dogs housed by a breeder.

There are some great networks but until we get the numbers of unwanted animals down by more spaying and neutering and less breeding of dogs and cats, etc. the need for a long - term facility that gives these animals a quality of life similar to Best Friends is necessary unless more people can foster these animals because right now the reality is that some of these dogs and cats are being fostered for years because they have one or two issues that keep them from being attractive to being adopted.

We have come a long way in busting the myths of breed discrimination, but there is a lot of misinformation and education to be done and by simply marking «pit bull» you have eliminated adopters from some communities, put a potential adopter in jeopardy of losing their home insurance, and limited the number of potential adopters.

Since the movie «As Good As It Gets» was released, the number of Griffons in rescues and shelters as well as those bred by puppy mills has escalated dramatically.

Therein lies the problem, as by that time an affected dog may have been bred a number of times and perhaps even to a second and third generation.

This lovely brown cat originated in England as the result of planned breedings between Siamese and domestic black cats by a number of devoted English cat fanciers whose general goal was to produce a self - brown cat.

If you plan on being in the dog breeding business for a number of years, you could save yourself, and your customers, many heart breaking moments by starting out with better breeding stock.

Below you will find the Top 100 Dog Breeds RANKED by popularity given by the number of registrations at the American Kennel Club website.

Although these three regions are really the pivotal geographic locations in the history of the sled dog, and although there are really only three types of dog that people today classify as huskies — Alaskan Malamutes, Alaskan Huskies and Siberian Huskies — there are actually a number of other less well known polar breeds that developed over time which can be differentiated by region, height, weight and colour...

Why did you ignore the man who speaks about his child being killed by this breed right on this blog??? Go to dogsbite.org which follow stats yearly, and report the vicious attacks of all breeds... pits year after year are number one.

As well as the fact the number of cases reported for these three breeds is more then the combined amount done by big dogs every year.

Of those six to eight million, one in four animals surrendered to shelters is a Pit Bull, likely because these dogs are falsely listed as «world's most dangerous breed» by a number of unreliable media outletOf those six to eight million, one in four animals surrendered to shelters is a Pit Bull, likely because these dogs are falsely listed as «world's most dangerous breed» by a number of unreliable media outletof unreliable media outlets.

Currently, the only major kennel club to grant full recognition to the East - European Shepherd is the Russian Kennel Club, although the breed is recognized by a number of rare breed registries in the United States such as the Dog Registry of America and the Continental Kennel Club.

The Miniature Schnauzer breed was developed by crossing a Standard Schnauzer with a number of smaller breeds including the Affenpinscher and the Miniature Poodle.

The National Canine Research Council states that despite a lack of concrete evidence linking specific breeds to a higher rate of dog bites, as well as an outright lack of success in reducing the number of dog - bite related injuries, BSL is incredibly expensive for the communities affected by it, draining resources that could otherwise be used to promote more humane and effective forms of population control and in turn, reduce overcrowding in shelters.

Before the late 20th century proliferation of pit bulls into the dog population, no other breed had ever killed or maimed humans in numbers that come even remotely close to those killed by pit bull type dogs.

By the numbers, most individual dogs of any breed will not pose a threat to humans in their lifetime.

A small number of Frenchie breeders in America and Europe kept the flame alive but by 1940 French Bulldogs were considered a rare breed and only 100 were registered with the AKC.

I believe the number one reason for the proliferation of incompetent and even criminal dog owners, is the failure by authorities everywhere to enforce the breed neutral laws, based upon the individual behavior of each dog, as they stand.

Each disease is assigned an identification number, and some diseases are followed by the names of the breeds known to be subject to those diseases.

Normal tail length and number of vertebrae varies considerably in dogs, though the number within a breed will be the same or perhaps vary by one or two.

As the UK's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds notes, in refreshingly straightforward language: «Despite the large numbers of birds killed, there is no scientific evidence that predation by cats in gardens is having any impact on bird populations UK - wide... It is likely that most of the birds killed by cats would have died anyway from other causes before the next breeding season, so cats are unlikely to have a major impact on populations.»

Now that we've met one of the world's least hairy dogs, the Peruvian hairless dog, it's time to meet the hairiest — the Komondor, a rare breed that, thanks to Kyra, a Komondor in the UK, has seen its numbers increase by nearly 25 percent.

Because of increasing numbers of fatal attacks by the breed and potential liability problems, allowing people to adopt pit bulls from shelters is like «taking a crap shoot,» said Randall Lockwood, an animal behaviorist at the Humane Society of the United States in Washington, D.C.

By answering a number of questions about your lifestyle, you will be given suggestions of breeds that would be appropriate for you.

Between the years of 1979 and 1998 this breed held the number - two position in fatal human bites as reported by the CDC.