Sentences with phrase «wild canids such»

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.

Other labs could then compare DNA sequences from purebred dogs; wild canids such as wolves, coyotes, and dingoes; and feral dogs.

Not exact matches

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.

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!

Wild canids, such as coyotes and wolves are OMNIVORES so if they came across some corn they would very likely eat it.

In the wild, other canids such as coyotes, wolves and foxes serve as hosts.

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.»