Sentences with phrase «wolves than in dogs»

It means that they happen to have retained a large number of those SNPs that are more common in wolves than in dogs.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

Friederike Range and Zsófia Virányi from the Messerli Research Institute investigated in their study if dogs are in fact less aggressive and more tolerant towards their conspecifics than wolves.

«Wolves seem to be a little bit more persistent than dogs in solving simple problems like how to open a box or navigate a detour,» Hare says.

Posted June 4 at arXiv.org, the new study finds that interbreeding between dogs and wolves after domestication has made wolves in certain locations seem more closely related to dogs than they actually are.

This week we hear stories about the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory's latest hit, why wolves are better team players than dogs, and volcanic eruptions that may have triggered riots in ancient Egypt with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic.

It is still shrouded in mystery when and where dogs and their wild ancestors the wolves went separate ways, but presumably it happened more than 10,000 years ago somewhere in Asia.

The results show that dogs went through several developmental steps that adapted their digestive system to a diet richer in starches than that of wolves.

«It's an interesting time, because the technology is moving faster than our ability to ask questions of it,» Greger Larson, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Oxford who studies ancient dogs and wolves, told Nature in June.

Dogs have departed from wolves in both their behaviour and physical traits, and in many ways, dogs resemble wolf puppies more than adult wolDogs have departed from wolves in both their behaviour and physical traits, and in many ways, dogs resemble wolf puppies more than adult woldogs resemble wolf puppies more than adult wolves.

In an earlier study, vonHoldt had identified a gene that's mutated more often in dogs than wolves — one that possibly led to their domesticatioIn an earlier study, vonHoldt had identified a gene that's mutated more often in dogs than wolves — one that possibly led to their domesticatioin dogs than wolves — one that possibly led to their domestication.

It is more closely associated with maternal lineages found in wolves, foxes, and jackals than with other dog lineages.

They also tested the blood for enzyme activity and found a more than fourfold increase in dogs as opposed to wolves.

The hybrids tend to result in dogs that are bigger than wolves.

Dogs (Wolves) do not eat dry food in the wild, other than incidental intake as they are eating the stomach contents or meat of prey they have just killed.

That said, for those of us who have heard again and again that dogs are just domesticated wolves living in a «pack» of humans — and who hasn't heard that more times than you can count, thanks to the popularization of the concept on TV — it might be helpful to learn all the scientific reasoning behind how wolves and dogs are different (and how we misunderstood wolves and their pack interactions for a very, very long time), why those «alpha dog» approaches aren't the best way to relate to your dog (and in fact, can even cause more problems), and why alternate approaches like positive reinforcement and reading the body language of a dog as a dog and not a mini wolf do work.

Thus we have slight differences in coat color variation between Arctic wolf, Malamute, sable German Shepherd Dog, and others that more resemble wolves and each other than do the phenotypically distant breeds.

Those who live in tropic or near - tropic climes will see that, as a rule, their dogs will have less undercoat and will shed more or less constantly rather than completely «blow» their coats twice a year such as the Shiba, Basenji, Telomian, or other close relative to the wolf.

A skull specimen dating at 33,000 years old and found in the Altai mountains of Siberia seems to have more in common with modern dogs than with wolves according to Live Science.

More copies means more protein, and test - tube studies indicate that dogs should be fivefold better than wolves at digesting starch, the chief nutrient in agricultural grains such as wheat and rice.

Dogs evolved from wolves more than 11,000 years ago, somewhere in Eurasia, though exactly when and how is under debate.

In general, we do have to be cautious about drawing parallels between the social behavior of wolves and other wild canids vs. dogs, because we know that there are important genetic behavioral differences — for example, feral dogs live in much looser social groups than wolves with members coming and going frequently, and do not have a strictly defined social hierarchIn general, we do have to be cautious about drawing parallels between the social behavior of wolves and other wild canids vs. dogs, because we know that there are important genetic behavioral differences — for example, feral dogs live in much looser social groups than wolves with members coming and going frequently, and do not have a strictly defined social hierarchin much looser social groups than wolves with members coming and going frequently, and do not have a strictly defined social hierarchy.

Lab work suggested that changes in three of those genes make dogs better than meat - eating wolves at splitting starches into sugars and then absorbing those sugars.

This gene is also 28 times more active in the pancreas of dogs than in wolves.

The size and position of the canid's shortened middle toe in relation to its pads indicates a dog rather than a wolf.

Breeding Kennel Definition — HB 666 defines a «breeding kennel» as «a location where five or more adult female dogs, wolf hybrids or cats capable of breeding are kept and some or all of the offspring are offered for sale, sold or exchanged for value or a location where more than 16 dogs or cats raised on the premises are sold to the public in a 12 - month period».

Wolves also require much more exercise than dogs, as they usually walk or run up to 100 miles a day in the wild.

The number of team member in Wolf Dog is one less than Black Sheep, so it's speculated that Violet would be the member of Wolf Dog.