Sentences with phrase «wild cousins»

For example, wild cousins provided the genetic basis for boosting the calcium content of potatoes.

The only difference is that our ferret's wild cousin remains on a normal play schedule even during illness to hide its vulnerability.

This would also prevent runaway farmed fish from mixing their genes with wild cousins.

The American Bobtail is more like its stockier wild cousins, with the standard calling for a stocky, muscular cat with big paws.

Although dogs have been domesticated for centuries, they still possess genes and behavior traits in common with wolves, foxes, coyotes and other wild cousins.

Girlie - men compared to their wild cousins, still red of fang and claw.

In a less than two weeks we will have all the forest full of their wild cousin bilberries ready to be picked.

From the floppy ears of dogs to the curly tails of pigs, domesticated animals sport a different look from their wild cousins — a look that scientists chalked up to human intervention.

He's trying to expand the cultivated peanut's gene pool with genes from its wild cousins.

Domestic chickea in one hand, wild chickpea in the other, University of Vermont plant biologist Eric Bishop von Wettberg led a team of scientists into remote regions of Turkey — hunting for ways to harness the diversity of agricultural plants» wild cousins.

In fact, most people are unaware that the typical supermarket and green market varieties of apples, oranges, lettuce, and raspberries are not at all the same as their wild cousins.

Coho grown in this simulated environment grew to just twice the size of their wild cousins and gorged on less prey than did their hatchery - grown counterparts, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Wild cousins have provided the genes to boost nutrition in domesticated potatoes and other crops, but they face trouble as the climate changes

As I watch a mix of honeybees and their wild cousins dart among purple flowers in one of Kremen's hedgerows, it is easy to see what he means.

But somewhere in the fields of Pennsylvania, a biobag - grown lamb is gamboling among its wild cousins — a futuristic thought indeed.

Now they have found that the equivalent gene in worms works the same way: worms with an additional copy of sir - 2.1 live up to 50 percent longer than their wild cousins.

Captive giant pandas like Ju Xiao, shown here with one of the triplets she gave birth to in July, are genetically healthy, but it's tough for her wild cousins to find a bamboo patch to call their own.

Researchers developed a transgenic line of mice that overexpress the gene for Klotho and then observed that they lived longer than their wild cousins.

The tomato is even more similar to its wild cousin, the small - fruited, hardy and usually green tomato, Solanum pimpinellifolium (right); the two share all but 0.6 % of their genome, which suggests they've been recently crossed.

Now consider that in the house we all live in — the planet — we're hardly giving the same courtesy to your Christmas tree's wild cousins.

The tested chimpanzees successfully used the sticks, and moreover, spontaneously showed the same underlying action pattern (a scooping action of the stick) as their wild cousins do.

Read about medical care and enrichment activities which enable this species to survive to such an old age in comparison to their wild cousins who only live to ten or eleven years of age.

Because many varieties of gluten - free grains are more closely related to their wild cousins than the hybrids we've come to rely on, they can often be grown more easily, using less intensive methods.

Since farm - raised fish neither move nor eat like their wild cousins, it may not surprise you to learn that their flesh contains more contaminants.

They even offer red cedar products, so your cat can be like its wild cousins who scratch on wood.

The basic behavior patterns of house cats are not much different from their wild cousins or their ancestors.

Even though hamsters are domesticated, their wild cousins traveled miles every night to search for food.

Many Toygers enjoy playing with water much like their wild cousins, tigers, who are strong swimmers and enjoy bathing in rivers, lakes and waterholes.

I find them so beautiful and i du n no, just something about having a pet so close to its wild cousin.

Proponents for a natural diet, including BARF Diet and the BARF World Distributor Network Dr. Ian Billinghurst, understand the downside of feeding a Raw food diet and state that «there are grave dangers that go along with the natural diet and natural conditions the ancestors or wild cousins of our dogs live with».

(ref) At first, these wolf dogs looked quite the same as their wild cousins — the changes were inside, in their personalities and ability to coexist with a different species.

Since this grazing behavior is instinctive, our furry friends from the pet store continue to eat all day long just like their wild cousins, except captive animals are eating nutrient - concentrated pellets that can cause obesity if consumed in large amounts.

A good thing about sea - farmed salmon is: it is often fresher than its wild cousin because the time between harvest to the production of the oil is much shorter.

Domestic rabbits, while enjoying many foods that their wild cousins consume, have been habituated to a human - manufactured diet in much the same way as other domestic animals.

Wilderness takes the natural diet to another level, modelling its recipes on the dietary needs of a wolf, the dog's wild cousin.

Cats may live in our homes, but they are not far removed from their wild cousins.

Our dogs still have a lot of the behavior patterns that their wild cousins have, even though it's not really adaptive for them anymore in their new role.

A young healthy cat should be eating a diet similar to his wild cousins — one that is high in protein, high in fats, and low in carbohydrates.

Our feline friends are related to the wild cats such as Tigers and some of them can really resemble some of their wilder cousins.

Their wild cousins have been known to live 25 years.

It may sound funny, but bringing a cat into your home is very much like adopting a miniature version of their wild cousins!

Many cats who eat only wet food will not drink water very often because, like their wild cousins, they get most of their water from their food.