Sentences with phrase «other wild carnivores»

Not exact matches

«We looked at the underlying genetics to understand why certain abilities to survive in the wild evolved in cats and other carnivores,» said Michael Montague, PhD, the study's first author and a postdoctoral research associate at The Genome Institute.

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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.

We started scavenging the same carcasses that other carnivores — wild dogs and hyenas — lived on, and the more meat we ate, the more our guts SHRANK, «because we didn't need a giant vegetable processor anymore.»

Marine farming offers a partial solution but comes with its own barrel of worms: Farmed fish tend to be more prone to diseases which spread to wild stocks; virtually all farmed fish are carnivores and therefore need to be fed on other fish; and farming of some animals, such as shrimp, can lead to massive changes in nitrogen levels, damaging the surrounding ecology.

Long before dogs became members of the household, they were wild animals that would fall prey to other carnivores.

In the wild, puppies and kits fall as prey to other carnivores and it is up to the mother to protect the litter as best she can, especially when she is off on hunting forages.

Less is actually more here because dogs are mainly carnivores (animals who eat other animals, i.e. meat), and would only find a small amount of digested plant matter in their prey's stomach out in the wild.

Cats, on the other hand, are obligate carnivores, who have adapted to meet all of their nutritional needs by eating whole prey, just like their wild big cat cousins.

Toxoplasma gondii (I) While it's true that cats are the definitive host of Toxoplasma gondii, it's important to note that «wild game can be a source of T. gondii infection in humans, cats, and other carnivores.

Just like bobcats and other wild felines, housecats are set up to be obligate carnivores who live almost exclusively on the flesh of prey animals.

In wild carnivores, the presenting signs are often neurological and the disease must be differentiated from rabies and other encephalitides.