Throughout the world, the domestic cat is a beloved and charismatic companion animal. Although as popular of a pet as the domestic dog, the origins of the domestic cat are less studied. Random-bred cats (i.e., feral, moggie, alley, house, community, street, or barn cats) remain a beh...
The unique and rare find of the remains of a small felid, found in the medieval urban center of Dzhankent in Kazakhstan, is ripe for this approach. Below, we combine multiple lines of scientific enquiry to: explore the ancestry of this cat and ascertain its domestic status; characterise ...
Unweighted pair-group method using arithmetic means (UPGMA) clustering of the core collection based on phenotypic data is shown in Additional file 2. All except two pairs of entries could be discriminated from each other based on phenotypic values. The dendrogram indi- cated a clear separation ...
She won’t hurt a cat on command, even when she’s so powerful to defend herself. And even though we don’t see her escape out the Hawkins Lab pipe, it’s clear that by the time she runs away, she’s beginning to realize something is very wrong with the Lab’s sense of morality...
In addition, both breeds have a strong hairiness, which could have made discrimination even more difficult. To investigate cross-species effects of the baby schema in pedophilia, other cat and dog breeds with the same coat color and little hairiness should be chosen as stimuli, e.g., European...
Anser anser domestic is the domesticated Grey Goose (Anser anser) and is one of the most common, large- scale, free-range poultry species in China. The Hooded Crane (Grus monacha) as a vulnerable (VU) species in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN 2020) is a...
Due to close contact between human and domestic animals, mostly cats and dogs; there is a great risk of spread of SARS-CoV-2 among domesticated animals. Although CoVs are well adapted to cross the inter-species barriers, only a few members of the virus family have managed to do that (SA...
In example I (a), the folk name encodes TK on the specific habitat of the coral cat shark. The prevalence of such names can be considered as an indicator of the TK held by the community on the species. The International Union for Conserva- tion of Nature (IUCN) Red List places Atelo...
a.any of the taxonomic groups into which a genus is divided, the members of which are capable of interbreeding: often containing subspecies, varieties, or races. A species is designated in italics by the genus name followed by the specific name, for exampleFelis domesticus(the domestic cat)....
spec•i•fic•i•ty (ˌspɛs əˈfɪs ɪ ti) n. 1.the quality or state of being specific. 2.Biol.the selective attachment or influence of one substance on another, as of an antibiotic on its target organism.