Sentences with phrase «wild canine species»

Nature has helped many breeds of dogs and other wild canine species to highlight the movement of their tail by providing lots of profuse, fringe or hair in breeds such as the Irish Setter or with heavily plumed tails such as the Spitz breeds.

«In man, social intercourse has centered mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.

Mosquitoes bite an infected wild canine species (such as coyotes), infected dogs or infected raccoons and then pass the «baby larvae» to other animals, including unprotected dogs, cats or ferrets not on a heartworm preventative.

Wild canine species such as wolves and coyotes live in packs or groups of family members and friends.

This tapeworm is normally found in wild canine species and is transmitted through an intermediate host, usually a rodent.

Not exact matches

Such diversity led Darwin to think that domestic dogs must have evolved from several wild canines, such as jackals, coyotes and wolves, but in fact we now know that all breeds descended from one species, the grey wolf.

This seems to be due to the presence of abundant, small - bodied wild carnivores that act as an alternative reservoir of infection, and a source of canine distemper for endangered species.

Several thousand Ferrets have been produced, many of them returned to the wild, but the species may be suffering from inbreeding and it is severely threatened by two exotic diseases — slyvatic plague and canine distemper virus.

While heartworms can infect more than 30 species of animals, such as ferrets, domestic cats, foxes, and other wild animals in the dog family, canines are considered the definitive host for these devastating worms.

In the wild, many species of animals including canines such as coyotes and wolves will eat their own feces to reabsorb passed nutrients.

This is much of the theory of why wolves and wild animals who are prone to heartworm infection (other species besides canines can actually get heartworm including cats, and even humans!)

«While they would likely be fine and indeed many species of wild canine and felines typically include insects in their diets we just don't know much yet.

Reproduction in dogs is an ingrained cycle of the species from its wild canine ancestors.

Who exactly can get HWs: Wild and domestic canines are the natural host, but other species (such as cats) can be affected.

Heartworm disease is a preventable yet serious condition caused by parasitic worms living in the arteries of the lungs, heart, and surrounding blood vessels of dogs, cats, wild canines and felines, other mammal species, and in rare cases, humans.

To halt the downward spiral of island fox populations, the Service partnered with the National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy, and Catalina Island Conservancy to launch a series of recovery actions that included relocating non-native golden eagles from the northern Channel Islands; removing the non-native species that provided prey for the eagles; vaccinating foxes against canine distemper; and breeding foxes in captivity and reestablishing them to the wild.