Sentences with phrase «of dog and a wolf»

To be able to compare the behaviour of dogs and wolves and to investigate the effects of domestication, it is important that the animals live in the same conditions,» Virányi explains.

Range and Virányi developed their new portrayal of dogs and wolves by giving a series of tests to socialized packs of mixed - breed dogs and wolves, four packs of each species, containing anywhere from two to six animals each.

Monique Udell, an animal behaviorist at Oregon State University, Corvallis, says her own study of dog and wolf behavior, also presented at the meeting, supports Range's contention that dogs are waiting for orders.

The largest - ever genetic family tree of dogs and wolves traces dogs» domestic origin to the region, an international group of researchers reports online March 17 in Nature.

Press release from Uppsala University: Scientists at SciLifeLab Uppsala and the Broad Institute show, in a study published in Nature today, that the genome of dogs and wolves differ in some important ways.

In the study now published in the scientific journal Nature the researchers have compared the genomes in a large number of dogs and wolves, and mapped areas of the genome that show clear differentiation between the two groups.

Some believe the breed was created as a cross between an earlier breed of dog and a wolf, though there is some contention on the subject.

Food requirement of dogs and wolves are similar, because they're relatives.

Now, scientists are tracking down new clues between genetics and behavior by comparing the genomes of dog and wolf, zeroing in on the relatively small sections of DNA that explain why dog and wolf pups may seem so similar, only to grow up to be so different.

This fascinating and up - to - date account unravels the current debate about the relationship of dogs and wolves, and explores dogs in mythology, religion and in ancient cults.

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.

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«We found that instead of recent wolves being closest to domestic dogs, ancient European wolves were directly related to them,» said Robert Wayne, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in UCLA's College of Letters and Science and senior author of the research.

A well recorded, understood, DNA mapped and uncontroversial case of the evolution of one species — Canis lupus lupus, the Eurasian wolf, into another, Canis lupus familiaris, the domestic dog.

They come to this blog to sing their shrill hymns of contempt, bark like dogs, howl like wolves, screech like monkeys and squeal like swine.

Now there are thousands of breeds of dog — but this DID NOT require a wolf to suddenly give birth to a male and female Po.odle (for example).

Most breeds of dog do not (and likely can not) breed with wolves for a variety of reasons, including allopatric and / or human induced separation and mating rituals.

However, and this is where evolution kicks in, all breeds of dog alive today descended from wolves.

As with most human activities, as our knowledge increased, dog breeding improved and exploded in the 1900s, with the current 600 or so breeds of dogs all descendent from the original wolf.

A well recorded, understood, DNA mapped and uncontroversial case of evolution of one sub-species — Canis lupus lupus, the Eurasian wolf, into another, Canis lupus familiaris, the domestic dog.

Sitting in my newly arranged living room, noshing on a luscious creamy piece of pie and watching my giant wolf dog allow my baby to hug his neck, life doesn't seem like it could get much better.

When my mom needed a quick and easy dinner for us kids, she pulled out a bag of white hot dog buns, threw some Oscar Meyer hot dogs on the grill, and opened up a can of Wolf brand chili.

«The big question is, will it be stray cats and dogs or a wolf pack of goodies for Albany's fat cats?»

The problem with much of the research on domestication is that the focus has been on how dogs and wolves interact with humans.

Since wolves were reintroduced to the U.S. West in the 1990s, ranchers there have wondered whether their dogs — including Maremma Sheepdogs and Great Pyrenees — are still up to the task of guarding their flocks.

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings, and the Biology of Boom and Bust By John Coates Most of us would blame the 2008 financial collapse on the subprime lending meltdown.

This unique coloring book features hand - drawn doodle - style designs of bears, wolves, lions, tigers, dogs, cats, and dozens of other animals.

Researchers measured the amount and quality of grass, the major blackbuck food source, and identified risky areas, where blackbuck were most likely to come across wolves, dogs or humans.

«I think there were a lot of different kinds of dogs — and maybe even some wolves — mating with each other, producing random litters of pups.»

The discovery, based on DNA evidence and reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on July 30, increases the overall biodiversity of the Canidae — the group including dogs, wolves, foxes, and jackals — from 35 living species to 36.

The first comparison of the full genomes of wolves and dogs has found 36 segments that clearly differ.

The artificial absence of wolves and other large predators gave cats, dogs, raccoons, and foxes license to grow fat on wild birds from the beaches to the mountainsides.

Perri's team found that the lower jaws and teeth of the Stilwell II dog and one Koster dog displayed some similarities to those of modern wolves.

The Eastern United States, long deprived of its native wolves, has a new large predator: a hybrid of wolves, coyotes, and domestic dogs, The Economist reports.

They are part of a long - running biological experiment to repeat domestication by turning a wild canid — from the family of animals including wolves, foxes, jackals and dogs — into a fox version of a domestic dog (SN: 5/13/17, p. 29).

Domesticating dogs from gray wolves more than 15,000 years ago involved artificial selection and inbreeding, but the effects of these processes on dog genomes have been little - studied.

Their hypothesis states that since wolves already are tolerant, attentive and cooperative, the relationship of wolves to their pack mates could have provided the basis for today's human - dog relationship.

UCLA researchers analyzed the complete genome sequences of 19 wolves; 25 wild dogs from 10 different countries; and 46 domesticated dogs from 34 different breeds.

Dueling genetic studies based on the DNA of modern dogs and wolves suggest the fellowship between humans and dogs could have been forged in the Middle East, Central Asia, East Asia or, as Goyet's archaeological evidence suggests, in Europe.

One set of analyses published in the late 1990s suggested dogs and wolves diverged some 135,000 years ago in the Middle East.

The origins of this dog - human relationship were subject of a study by behavioural scientists from the Messerli Research Institute at the Vetmeduni Vienna and the Wolf Science Center.

They showed that the ancestors of dogs, the wolves, are at least as attentive to members of their species and to humans as dogs are.

To test their hypothesis, Range and Virányi examined the social attentiveness and tolerance of wolves and dogs within their packs and toward humans.

Germonpré's assertion that the Goyet dog is in fact a dog comes from comparing its skull and jaws with those of wolves and modern dogs.

At the center, the researchers oversee and study four packs of wolves and four packs of dogs, containing anywhere from two to six animals each.

Scientists examined mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mothers to offspring, to trace maternal lineages of ancient and modern dogs and wolves.

«It provides [evidence for] exactly what we did, in terms of the split between East and West,» he says, and the two papers place the dog — wolf divergence at around the same time as well.

People and dogs also look into each other's eyes while interacting — a sign of understanding and affection that dogs» closest relatives, wolves, interpret as hostility.

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 hunts.

In addition to collecting DNA from hundreds of modern wolves as well as mutts and purebred dogs, the dual - origin researchers extracted DNA from dozens of ancient dogs, including a particularly high - value sample from a 4,800 - year - old animal unearthed in Newgrange, Ireland.