Harem stallions fight for the females and protect their harems against predators and the bachelor males, which are non-breeding males without a harem. Credit: Katalin Ozogány The findings reveal that wild horses, just like humans, live in a complex, multilevel society. The organizati...
Instead, dogs and wolves shared a wolflike ancestor.Folklore supposes that humans brought wolf puppies into camp and domesticated them. Or as wolf expert David Meeh wrote in 1974, “Evidently early humans tamed wolves and domesticated them, eventually selectively breeding them and finally developing...
In this study, we asked whether wild magpies can recognize individual humans who had accessed their nests. We compared the behavior of breeding pairs toward individual humans before and after the humans climbed up to the birds’ nests, and also toward climbers and non-climbers. We have evidence...
Selective breeding, also known as artificial selection, is a process used by humans to develop new organismswith desirable traits. It can be used to produce tastier fruits and vegetables, crops with greater resistance to pests, andlarger animals that can be used for meat.Perhaps the earliest exa...
308–9, IV.10, 317. It is barely possible that Swift had some awareness of the division of human history into “stone ages” and “metal ages.” Damrosch suggests that there is no planting or cultivating of crops; the oats may all be wild, possibly with little or no selective breeding...
Human disturbance drives the decline of many species, both directly and indirectly. Nonetheless, some species do particularly well around humans. One mechanism that may explain coexistence is the degree to which a species tolerates human disturbance. Here we provide a comprehensive meta-analysis of ...
Like two people walking side by side14, when a person and a dog walk indoors, their movements are not independent, but synchronized. Our results are in line with intraspecific findings. Dogs show behavioural synchronization with conspecifics in many activities, such as howling, sleeping, and ...
Ethnobiologists commonly analyze local knowledge systems related to plants, animals, fungi, and ecosystems. However, microbes (bacteria, yeasts, molds, viruses, and other organisms), often considered invisible in their interactions with humans, are often
Eventually they became familiar enough with each other that the humans began to raise the puppies and keep those with valuable traits like tameness. These humans then started selectively breeding dogs by their desirable traits and usefulness. From there different dog breeds were formed due to the ...
Google Mobility, Stringency index, or Period as a predictor of interest, while controlling for starting distance of the observer (ln-transformed), flock size (ln-transformed), body mass (ln-transformed), temperature (also a proxy for a day within the breeding season: rPearson = 0.48; Fig. ...