Sentences with phrase «still wild ancestors»
After thousands of years of inadvertent selection for «tameness» the camp wolves started to become dependent on their human hosts and to even look different to their still wild ancestors.
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But they lost some things in the process, like genes for disease resistance that still occur in wild peanut ancestors.
The Blue Wilderness brand is designed to appeal to your dog's wild ancestors — and though your Shih Tzu may seem very little like the wolves in their ancestry, they can still appreciate a kibble packed with high - quality proteins!
Both paths — scientists are still debating which was more likely for different animals — led to the creation of domesticated species or subspecies genetically distinct from their wild ancestors.
But those branches in tomatoes still look like the wild ancestor's — with flowers, and subsequently, fruit, arranged in a zigzag along an end branch.
It is still shrouded in mystery when and where dogs and their wild ancestors the wolves went separate ways, but presumably it happened more than 10,000 years ago somewhere in Asia.
Also, despite thousands of years of living alongside us, cats still retain the same instincts as their wild ancestors and are only «semi-domesticated,» according to a team of researchers from schools including Washington University School of Medicine and Texas A&M and published in the journal PNAS.
As the wild ancestors of dogs consumed their prey, they ate the plants still contained in the stomach and intestines.
They will not exactly be acting out their ancestors» habit of traversing wide open territories at night, but it will be clear to everyone in the house that any hamster happily adapted to their wheel will still get to spend many hours running wild.
Hall told Daily Mail that despite their current role as man's best friend, dogs still take after their wild wolf ancestors.
The ancestors of our house cats, Felis Silvestris, still roam wild in Europe, and look an awful lot like many of our common tabby cats.
Dogs are a domesticated version of the wolf (though there are thousands of years between them) but many scientists and animal nutritionists agree that modern dogs are still adapted to follow the same kind of diet as their wild ancestors.