D From an early age, dogs win wolves at communicating with and figuring out cues(暗示) from humans. It's true even when the dogs have had less exposure(接触) to people. Compared with human-raised wolf pups(幼崽), dog puppies that had limited exposure to people were still 30times as ...
(2003) Dewclaws in wolves as evidence of admixed ancestry with dogs. Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne de Zoologie 81(12), 2077-2081.P. Ciucci, V. Lucchini, L. Boitani, and E. Randi, "Dewclaws in wolves as evidence of admixed ancestry with dogs," Canadian Journal of ...
We all knowthat dogs are wolves in one sense (can reproduce and their young are reproductively viable) and, as importantly, that dogs aren’t wolves at all. Just try to teach a wolf “leave it” if you happen upon a dead rabbit. Here are two new studiesthat shed light on the social...
000 years ago, probably somewhere in Eurasia. Dogs can interbreed with wolves to produce "wolfdogs", indicating that they have not changed sufficiently to have lost the capacity to produce hybrids. Dogs share many similarities with wolves, but there are also ...
Due to their convergent evolution, dogs have been suggested as a good model for the evolution of human social skills, such as tolerance and cooperativeness. However, recent studies have revealed that wolves (dogs’ closest undomesticated relatives) are m
Like dogs,wolves can recognize and respond to the voices of familiar humans more than those of strangers,according to a recent study.The research challenges the belief that dogs ability to differentiate human voices is due to selective breeding (选择性繁殖).Holly Root Gutteridge and colleagues ...
(for traveling over snow), intelligent minds, and a seemingly effortless gait. At some point in the distant past, it’s believed that they were mixed in with wildwolves. This heritage has given them a remarkably wolf-like appearance. But despite some misconceptions, they’re not wolf-dog ...
According to their dietary needs, the dogs were fed every day with dry food or meat mixed with dry food, while the wolves were fed every third day with carcasses. Water was available for all subjects ad libitum. Since puppyhood, all subjects had participated regularly in different cognitive ...
Ownership of wolf-dogs is on the rise putting animals are in danger. Breed Does Not Equal Behavior—Here’s Why A new study found that a dog’s breed accounts for less than 10 percent of their behavior. We Answer the Age-Old Question: Why Do Dogs Howl?
I found Spotte's perspective very interesting even if I disagreed with some of his premises such as his suggestion to name red wolves as "red coyotes" (p. 8), calling Great Lakes wolves the same as eastern wolves (page 7 note: most of the literature separates the two as Great Lakes ...