Two of the most common nonhuman animals that interact with humans are domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) and cats (Felis catus). In contrast to dogs, the ability of domestic cats to communicate with humans has not been explored thoroughly. We used a habituation-dishabituation method to investigate...
import os, shutil# 数据集解压之后的目录original_dataset_dir = 'D:\kaggle\dogsvscats\\train'# 存放小数据集的目录base_dir = 'D:\kaggle\dogsvscats\\cats_and_dogs_small'os.mkdir(base_dir)# 建立训练集、验证集、测试集目录train_dir = os.path.join(base_dir, 'train') os.mkdir(train_dir)...
The population of dogs and cats passing through rescue shelters may be subject to compromised welfare and increased susceptibility to disease. Little information exists to describe this population, its dynamics and associated management practices. The ai
In dogs, however, the heritability of behaviour has been estimated in multiple studies and the estimates have varied depending on the studied breed as well as used phenotyping (including, for example, questionnaires and behaviour tests) and statistical methods. Heritability estimates of non-social ...
Cats were re-captured with the assistance of muzzled dogs trained to locate and drive them up a tree. Once treed, cats were sedated with a dart containing the sedative tiletamine-zolazepam at a rate of 0.5 cc / kg shot from a Pnue-Dart X-calibre C02 dart-rifl...
Researchers found that small dogs had the same mutation in a gene that influences size. The mutant gene is absent from most large dog breeds. The small breeds studied shared a mutatnt form of the insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) gene known to influence size in mice and humans. The...
As such, feeding a diet devoid of animal-derived ingredients has been postulated as a possible cause of nutrient imbalances and adverse health outcomes. A small proportion of cat owners feed strictly plant-based diets to the cats in their care, yet the health and wellness of cats fed these ...
Small mammal mortality Felis catus 1. Introduction Encroachment and habitat alteration of natural areas has led to increased contact between domestic companion animals (dogs and cats) and wildlife (Riley et al., 2004,Alexander and Appel, 1994). Under this context, free ranging pet cats (Felis ca...
To identify admixture and support fastSTRUCTURE and STRUCTURE observations, f3 statistics were calculated among all sample location populations (significant results presented in Supplementary Table 5) for the SNP dataset, excluding small populations with less than five individuals and those from the America...
The subgingival microbial communities of domestic cats remain incompletely characterized and it is unknown whether their functional profiles are associated with disease. In this study, we used a shotgun metagenomic approach to explore the functional pote