However, population viability models in African
wild dogs suggest that diseases causing high adult mortality can pose a significant extinction threat [19].
Not exact matches
African
wild dogs are one of the world's most endangered carnivores and their populations are in decline, with estimates
suggesting that fewer than 700 packs currently remain in the
wild.
The findings
suggest that although
wild animals may be important for the transmission of new diseases to humans, humanity's oldest companions — livestock and pets such as cattle and
dogs provide the vital link in the emergence of new diseases.
It was about phytate,
suggesting that Mellanby shouldn't have used
dogs, since the carnivore digestive system is very different from ours and they would never encounter phytate in the
wild.
The history of the domestication of
dogs is anyone's guess, but there is plenty of evidence to
suggest that the herding behavior we see in today's modern stockdogs originated in the time when tribes used wolves and
wild dogs to hunt.
The Dingo is a
wild dog native to Australia; evidence
suggests that he has never been entirely domesticated, although there are some instances of Dingoes being tamed - hence the Red Heeler coming into existence in the first place!
One theory
suggests that
dogs and cats used to get greens in the
wild when hunting smaller grass - eating prey, but lack this green nutrition in domesticated diets.
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