Sentences with phrase «of wild canids»

Half of All Wild Canids Used in Traditional Medicine The practice dates back more than a thousand years, the BBC reports, with medieval manuscripts from Azerbaijan detailing the use of wolves, foxes, and jackals in medicinal treatments.

Alves» team, which conducted a similar review dealing with primates earlier this year, found that 19 out of 35 known species of wild canid are employed in traditional medicine, making them among the most frequently used mammals worldwide.

Not exact matches

A study of foxes offers new insights into the brain changes that occur in wild canids as they become more tame, researchers report.

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).

Eggleston's lab had a good deal of purebred dog DNA and just enough wild canid DNA.

Elephants and some canid species, such as African wild dogs, for example, will often care for another's young and they also show a great deal of cooperation within a group, sharing sources of food and water, and assisting injured or disabled group members.

In the two decades following the epidemic, wild canids died following CDV infection but fatal CDV was not observed in lions or spotted hyenas anymore, even though high prevalence of serum antibodies against CDV in some years indicated outbreaks of asymptomatic exposure to the virus in lions and hyenas.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), conducted genetic analyses of CDV strains obtained from a range of carnivores between 1993 and 2012 and discovered that lethal CDV infections in lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic was caused by a rare and genetically distinct CDV strain with three rare mutations not present in any other Serengeti strain isolated from domestic dogs or wild canids.

Detailed phylogenetic analyses of several virus genes, some of which used complete CDV genomes, revealed that strains from lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic were strongly distinct from those in domestic dogs and wild canids.

Altogether, the haplotypes of the three ancient samples were classified as either dog or wolf - like for 18 matrices that showed clear distinction between dog and wild canid haplotypes based on average reference allele counts calculated per window.

Wild canids, such as wolves, foxes, and coyotes, can spend up to 60 % of their day searching for food.3, 4 No animal evolved to acquire its food from walking up to a full bowl!

In the wild, canids have been known to cover massive areas of rough terrain and inhospitable wilderness without ever needing 2 pairs of shoes to protect their paws.

Canine Distemper: is a virus that attacks the respiratory, gastrointestinal (GI), and nervous system of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels (dogs), wild canids, raccoons, skunks, and other animals.

Some experts believe that a dog's taste for grass goes back to the days when a wild canid would eat the stomach contents of its prey (usually plants like grass and leaves).

Wild canids and felids also eat other vital organs, including the heart muscle and liver since these organs are so chock - full of nutrients.

Animal by - products is a lump - all phrase for offal (organ meats and entrails), which are high in nutritional value and are the same portions of animal that wild canids and felids (and pet dogs and cats if they had to hunt) would eat first.

In fact, one of the first parts of prey that wolves and other wild canids often eat before peripheral muscle are portions of the intestinal tract, which (since their prey are usually herbivores) tend to be full of partially digested carbohydrates.

The population of heartworms not exposed to the drugs — heartworms living in wild canids such as wolves, foxes and coyotes, and in untreated domestic dogs — helps to dilute the heartworm gene pool, keeping the resistant genes from predominating.

Dogs, cats, ferrets and wild canids, including coyotes, are potential reservoirs of infection.

It's due to wildlife, wild canids that are themselves infected that serve as a source of infection.

It can also infect a variety of wild animals, including wild canids (e.g., foxes, wolves, coyotes), wild felids (e.g. tigers, lions, pumas), raccoons, opossums, and pinnipeds (e.g., sea lions and seals), as well as others.

In general, we do have to be cautious about drawing parallels between the social behavior of wolves and other wild canids vs. dogs, because we know that there are important genetic behavioral differences — for example, feral dogs live in much looser social groups than wolves with members coming and going frequently, and do not have a strictly defined social hierarchy.

Yes — fearfulness has been shown to be a very heritable trait in dogs, probably because it's a trait that has a lot of survival value for dogs that aren't fortunate enough to live as protected pets (as well as related wild canids, like foxes and wolves).

«Dogs» is a comprehensive, vivid account of the origin and evolution of canids — including wolves, foxes, coyotes, and wild dogs — from their common ancestors more than 40 million years ago.

Such traditional medicinal practices, known to threaten primate species as well as tigers and bears, also pose a shocking danger to wild dogs: Half of all known wild canid species, including two endangered ones, are harvested for use in folk treatments.According to the BBC, a team of researchers led by Professor Romulo Alves of the State University of Paraiba in Brazil «found evidence that canids are used in the treatment of at least 28 medical conditions, including asthma, arthritis, back ache, bronchial illnesses, chicken pox, eczema, epilepsy, flu, kidney diseases, measles and mumps, as well as the treatment of stomach complaints, snake bites, and warts.»

And not to mention the indirect moral of the story: If felines and canids can get along in the wild, there may be hope for us primates yet.