Sentences with phrase «of domesticated dog»

Annual cleanings are vital to the care of a domesticated dog» s teeth.

Huskies are neither wolves nor wolf hybrids, nor are they any closer genetically to wolves than any other other breed of domesticated dog.

Throughout history, one of the main jobs of the domesticated dog has been to protect its owners and guard against unwanted people or animals.

The Bichon Frise is a small breed of domesticated dog with a fluffy white coat, a black nose and dark - colored eyes.

Due to mass vaccination of domesticated dogs, CIH has decreased dramatically in North America, and therefor has become less of a hazzard.

Due to mass vaccination of domesticated dogs, CIH has decreased dramatically in North America, and therefor has become less of a hazard..

In the wild, after all, no one manufactured toys for the wolves, the ancestors of all domesticated dogs.

The Siberian Husky is considered to be one of the most beautiful breeds of domesticated dogs.

Of all domesticated dogs on official record, this hound dog breed is also one of the oldest, dating back to 3000 BC in ancient Egypt.

Most breeds of domesticated dogs want to please their family pack, and just like human children, if they feel that they are going to be «in trouble» they may try to hide the evidence.

The digestive system of domesticated dogs is not designed to eat processed or cooked food.

Research conducted by geneticist Robert Wayne has shown that DNA of domesticated dogs and wolves differs by only 1 %.

The origin of all domesticated dogs may have come from the wolf.

Pariahs are considered ancient breeds, although it is not clear if these are the descendents of domesticated dogs that returned to the wild, or descendents of primitive breeds from the original domestication of the wolf, which continued to live over the years as semi-wild wanderers on the fringes of man's habitations.

, humans began the process of domesticating the dog and shaping what «being a dog» really means.

Could the barking of domesticated dogs be a form of communication more closely resembling speech?

The genetic analysis of Peter Savolainen of the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has placed the origins of domesticated dogs — and those of the first dog — in East Asia.

The Watson rant kept on going calling for everything from cutting down on the population of domesticated dogs and cats to cutting down on everything else in what he called «simplify, simplify, simplify.»

In the land where the Brothers Grimm once filled folk with fear of the Big Bad Wolf, but which the newest science now claims is the single geographic origin of domesticated dogs, our beloved companions, one can only expect the news of the first wild - born litter of wolf cubs to meet with mixed reviews.

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.

New York State law requires rabies vaccinations for all cats, dogs and domesticated ferrets no later than four months after its date of birth.

Much of their work focuses on the house mouse (Mus musculus), which evolved to be commensal with humans: The mice are not domesticated like dogs or sheep, but they are dependent on living in and around a human settlement.

WASHINGTON — A trio of dogs buried at two ancient human sites in Illinois lived around 10,000 years ago, making them the oldest known domesticated canines in the Americas.

Since those dogs lived thousands of years after domestication, the findings suggest the first domesticated dogs were no better equipped to digest starch than wolves were.

These people also bring domesticated dogs — the primary carriers of rabies and canine distemper (SN Online: 9/30/16).

He thinks surveillance of an entire rural ecosystem — pigs, birds, people, as well as dogs, cats, horses, and other domesticated and wild animals — would finally yield some deeper insights into why and how flu viruses evolve.

At one level it is Canis lupus dingo, a subspecies of dog that arrived in Australia from Asia 3500 years ago as a domesticated animal that later reverted to living in wild packs.

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.

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.

Scientists used to think that dogs were domesticated toward the end of the Ice Age, about 14,000 years ago (SN Online: 7/22/10).

«The burden of proof is higher» to support a scenario in which multiple domesticated dog lineages emerged independently in different parts of the planet, he says.

Dogs have the distinction of being the first animal humans domesticated — and the only one before the advent of agriculture.

«We have a 7,000 - year - old sample that was nearly indistinguishable from modern domesticated dogs,» says University of Michigan biologist Amanda Pendleton, a co-author on the study.

An extinct wolf's DNA has pushed back the origin of dogs by more than 10,000 years, but when humans domesticated them is still lost in the mists of time

If cats sport genetic changes akin to those of other domestic animals, why are they still a bit wilder than our other favorite domesticate, the dog?

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.

But that thought only proved how little I knew about the origins of dogs and other domesticated animals.

A 2015 study in Genome Research, for example, estimated that 25 percent of modern Eurasian wolf DNA actually comes from interbreeding with domesticated dogs.

According to the study, dogs were domesticated not once but twice, on opposite ends of the Eurasian continent at least 15,000 years ago.

In fact, since domesticated dogs soon reach sexual maturity and reproduce rapidly, an early human family would have been overrun by a pack of carnivores if some puppies were not culled.

Previous research had established the wolf as the ancestor of today's dog, but when and where humans first domesticated the animals remained unclear.

«As the first species to be domesticated, dogs have a very ancient and very profound link to humans that affected both of us.»

The Maya cultivated many plants for food, but it has long been believed that they only kept one domesticated animal — dogs — for food during the early flourishing of their civilization.

Later, when millet farming intensified, it became the mainstay of an integrated agricultural system that included millet - eating domesticated pigs and dogs.

Taken together, the data suggest that humans domesticated dogs in Asia more than 14,000 years ago, and that a small subset of these animals eventually migrated west through Eurasia, probably with people.

Researchers say dogs were domesticated first in Europe from a lineage of gray wolves that no longer exists

In the second scenario, the Botai horses didn't survive, and were replaced by horses domesticated elsewhere, creating at least two centers of horse domestication (as there may have been for dogs, cats, and other animals).

But here's the twist: Archaeologists previously had found the remains of dogs in Germany that may be more than 16,000 years old, suggesting that dogs had already been domesticated in Europe by the time the Asian canines got there.

This week in Science, researchers report that genetic analysis of hundreds of canines reveals that dogs may have been domesticated twice, once in Asia and once in Europe or the Near East, although European ancestry has mostly vanished from today's dogs.

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.