Sentences with phrase «wolf dogs in»

For example, A Slow Time in Arcadia, from which the exhibition derives its title, depicts frolicking wolf dogs in a mountainous terrain painted in bright reds, oranges, yellows, and blues.

The breed's officially recognised name is German Shepherd Dog in the English language, sometimes abbreviated as «GSD», and was also formerly known as the Alsatian and Alsatian Wolf Dog in Britain.

Not exact matches

The 25 - person staff lets a variety of pets roam the office, including dogs, a cat who lived in - house for a year while its owners moved, and even a full - fledged, domesticated wolf.

«We found that instead of recent wolves being closest to domestic dogs, ancient European wolves were directly related to them,» said Robert Wayne, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in UCLA's College of Letters and Science and senior author of the research.

Yes, of course, evolution is fact, you can see it in any museum or just looking at your pet dog, formerly known as wolf several millenia ago.

Even when the minister begins as missionary to some people in the world he soon gathers a Church that claims his special attention; even when he begins as a shepherd of a separated flock he is bound to have relations to those who seem to be the wolves that prey upon it or the dogs that protect it.

They [atheists] become as dogs, goats, swine and wolves in their irrationality.

However, and this is where evolution kicks in, all breeds of dog alive today descended from wolves.

As with most human activities, as our knowledge increased, dog breeding improved and exploded in the 1900s, with the current 600 or so breeds of dogs all descendent from the original wolf.

In the struggle for life, the domestic dog species originated through means of selection as a favored race from the original wolf.

Sitting in my newly arranged living room, noshing on a luscious creamy piece of pie and watching my giant wolf dog allow my baby to hug his neck, life doesn't seem like it could get much better.

Update: Video was a hoax pulled by Jimmy Kimmel If American Olympian Kate Hansen isn't showing off her great pre-routine dance or posting twerking videos, she's apparently filming dogs that look like wolves in her Sochi hotel halls.

Despite the sportsbooks giving road dog Idaho an additional half - point, slightly more than six out of ten spread wagers remain in favor of the 6 - 5 Wolf Pack beating the 2 - 9 Vandals by at least 21 - points in front of their home crowd.

On Saturday, Manchester United (1.25 WilliamHill) will look to repeat the feat over Wolves (17.00 Boylesports) when they beat Mick McCarthy's dogged side 3 - 2 at Old Trafford in the fourth round of the Carling Cup two weeks ago.

The wolf (including the dingo), coyote, jackal, and domestic dog all have 78 chromosomes arranged in 39 pairs.

Since wolves were reintroduced to the U.S. West in the 1990s, ranchers there have wondered whether their dogs — including Maremma Sheepdogs and Great Pyrenees — are still up to the task of guarding their flocks.

Scientists agree that dogs stem from wolves, but where, when and how many times dogs were domesticated — passing down tameness and other traits over generations — has been rethought many times in the last few years (SN: 7/8/17, p. 20).

The Blue Wilderness brand is designed to appeal to your dog's wild ancestors — and though your Shih Tzu may seem very little like the wolves in their ancestry, they can still appreciate a kibble packed with high - quality proteins!

Islands of wolf populations persist in remote highland areas surrounded by oceans of free - ranging dogs.

Just as it does in dogs and humans, the disease attacks a wolf's brain, causing aggressive behavior and, eventually, death.

Because the dogs roam far and wide, dog vaccination programs didn't reach enough animals to generate prolonged protection and prevent outbreaks in wolves.

The discovery, based on DNA evidence and reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on July 30, increases the overall biodiversity of the Canidae — the group including dogs, wolves, foxes, and jackals — from 35 living species to 36.

Dueling genetic studies based on the DNA of modern dogs and wolves suggest the fellowship between humans and dogs could have been forged in the Middle East, Central Asia, East Asia or, as Goyet's archaeological evidence suggests, in Europe.

One set of analyses published in the late 1990s suggested dogs and wolves diverged some 135,000 years ago in the Middle East.

One skull, found in a Goyet cave in Belgium, may be one of the oldest dogs ever discovered — or at least the oldest wolf that looked like a dog.

The foxes she worked with come from a long line started in 1959 when a Russian scientist named Dmitry Belyaev attempted to recreate dog domestication, but using foxes instead of wolves.

To be able to compare the behaviour of dogs and wolves and to investigate the effects of domestication, it is important that the animals live in the same conditions,» Virányi explains.

Germonpré's assertion that the Goyet dog is in fact a dog comes from comparing its skull and jaws with those of wolves and modern dogs.

Hypotheses which claim that wolves have limited social skills in this respect in comparison to dogs are therefore incorrect,» Range points out.

«It provides [evidence for] exactly what we did, in terms of the split between East and West,» he says, and the two papers place the dog — wolf divergence at around the same time as well.

Fossil dogs and wolves from Palaeolithic sites in Belgium, the Ukraine and Russia: osteometry, ancient DNA and stable isotopes.

Since 2008 Zsófia Virányi, an ethologist at the Wolf Science Center in Austria, and her colleagues have been raising the two species to figure out what makes a dog a dog — and a wolf a wWolf Science Center in Austria, and her colleagues have been raising the two species to figure out what makes a dog a dog — and a wolf a wwolf a wolfwolf.

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An extinct wolf's DNA has pushed back the origin of dogs by more than 10,000 years, but when humans domesticated them is still lost in the mists of time

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.

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Considering how long it took for dogs to be domesticated — the oldest doglike skeletal remains were found in central Russia and date to 15,000 years ago, perhaps a million years after the first wolves appeared — the foxes settled down quickly.

I liked Brian Hare's alternative theory on the origins of domestic dogs, in which «friendly» wolves that thrived on food...

«The ancient [Newgrange] dog had ancestry not found in modern dogs or in modern wolves,» says Mietje Germonpré, who was not part of the dual - origin team.

ANCIENT RIFT DNA from a wolf (fossil jaw shown) that lived in Siberia some 35,000 years ago indicates dogs and wolves split earlier than thought.

In addition to collecting DNA from hundreds of modern wolves as well as mutts and purebred dogs, the dual - origin researchers extracted DNA from dozens of ancient dogs, including a particularly high - value sample from a 4,800 - year - old animal unearthed in Newgrange, IrelanIn addition to collecting DNA from hundreds of modern wolves as well as mutts and purebred dogs, the dual - origin researchers extracted DNA from dozens of ancient dogs, including a particularly high - value sample from a 4,800 - year - old animal unearthed in Newgrange, Irelanin Newgrange, Ireland.

«This study is a fabulous first go at experimentally comparing the ability of wolves and dogs to cooperate with their groupmates,» says Brian Hare, a dog cognition expert at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not involved with the work.

This tolerance enables wolf - wolf cooperation which in turn could have provided a good basis for the evolution of human - dog cooperation.»

While low - ranked wolves often defended their food against the high - ranked partner and showed aggressive behaviour as often as higher - ranked wolves, this was different in dogs.

There, she tested pairs of dogs or wolves in an exercise that has also been used to study cooperative behavior in chimps and bonobos.

The short snout and wide braincase of a canid skull (top) found in Belgium's Goyet Cave, in comparison with two ancient wolves found in nearby caves (middle, bottom), led scientists to claim the Goyet bones are from a 36,000 - year - old dog.

She teamed up with researchers at the Wolf Science Centre in Ernstbrunn, Austria, where dogs and wolves are raised under similar semiwild conditions, albeit with medical care and some daily training.

«Dogs were bred to get along with us and to pay close attention to us, but not necessarily to cooperate the way wolves do,» says Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University in Atlanta who was not involved with the study.

DNA in this ancient Irish dog's temporal bone is distinct from modern dogs and wolves.

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