Sentences with phrase «white fur patches»

Many Cocker Spaniels may have white fur patches in their fur.

From 2010 to 2016, the proportion of adult mice with white fur patches more than doubled, the team reports today in Royal Society Open Science.

House mice living near humans developed white fur patches, a trait associated with domesticated animals.

Now, a new study of wild mice shows that they, too, can develop signs of domestication — white fur patches and short snouts — with hardly any human influence.

Not exact matches

Four years later, Anna Lindholm, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, began to notice white patches of fur on a few of the russet - colored mice.

That might explain the white patches of fur, shorter snouts and curly tails of the tame animals.

A mutation in the Kit gene is known to produce white patches of fur on the toes and tails of brown mice.

Belyaev suggested that sometime during embryonic development the production of dopa was delayed, creating docile foxes with patches of white fur and skin.

In a renowned study started back in the 1950s, Russian researchers found that captive silver foxes bred for tameness also exhibited a suite of other traits, such as white patches of fur on their heads, curly tails, «feminized» faces with shorter snouts and floppy ears, and skulls in males that weren't much larger than in females.

The «domestication syndrome» includes the appearance of white patches of fur and a reduced relative brain and snout size.

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There was a lot to like at Peter Pilotto's fall 2015 collection show: a white zip - front coat punctuated with silver studs and circuitous patches of pale pink fur, a sage green coat paneled with golden calf hair, rows of pale neon stripes winding up and around turtleneck sweaters, dresses and hip - hugging skirts.

Bonnie is white, with little gray spots peaking through her fur like confetti and one large gray patch covering half her face.

That's when her friend Melissa posted on Facebook that she was fostering the aptly named Patches, whose white fur is covered with patterns of black and ginger.

Dawnstreader Texas Calboy's genetics place him within the group of 1 male in every 3,000 calicos, a fur color trait known for its patches of black, white and orange coloring.

Double dapple Dachshunds are confused with piebald Dachshund because both dogs have patches of white fur.

The ideal coloring of the head fur includes a white hourglass - shaped patch just above the face with a black blaze in the middle of the patch.

A patching design in the fur on top of a white primary coat color.

Rather, calicos are simply cats which are primarily white but which also have patches of orange and black fur.

These easy - going fur balls are black and white in appearance, often having one or both eyes ringed by a large patch of black fur.

I have a black german shepherd who was a white patch of fur on his chest.

left white patch on my black cat, looked like it singed his fur or something, my other cat it irritated his skin and left a small bald spot.

When he chews his fur away, as he sometimes does when he gets anxious, he gets white patches.