Showing posts with label maladaptive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maladaptive. Show all posts
Monday, October 16, 2017

Maladaptive Pigeons at the Hand of Man

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The Rock Dove or Rock Pigeon, from which all domestic pigeons derive. Dogs are not the only animals that have been selected for functio...
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Thursday, May 25, 2017

Why Do Dogs Eat Grass?

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Why do dogs eat grass? It's a common question , but in asking the question, an assumption is revealed. The assumption is that do...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

The Balancing Points of a Working Terrier

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A repost from 2005. The ideal working terrier, if there is such a thing, represents a set of balancing points. Above all it must be ...
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Monday, October 29, 2012

The Architecture of Burrows

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A repost from 2005 The list of animals that hibernate in underground burrows, live in burrows or nest in burrows is astounding: fox,...
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Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Un-Natural Selection for FAIL... and WIN

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Understanding mutation is basic to understanding evolution and dogs. The concentration of mutation is what "selective breeding...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Maladaptive Is a Two-Way Street

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This story is repost from August 2008. "Maladaptive" is one of those nice words that skirts over a wide range of bad outcomes in...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

An Unintended Lesson About Charles Darwin

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You would think I would be the ideal reader for a book about Darwin's Origin of Species written by a veterinarian who was critical of ...
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Friday, January 22, 2010

Kennel Club Dogs: Unnatural Selection for Defect

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Over at Science Daily, they are reporting on a new study by biologists Chris Klingenberg, of The University of Manchester, and Abby Drake, o...
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Monday, November 09, 2009

Deer v. Lion at National Zoo in D.C.

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A wild deer from Rock Creek Park jumped into the lion exhibit at the National Zoo on Sunday afternoon. One word: maladaptive . A female li...
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Monday, October 12, 2009

So You Want a Dog?

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This piece is from the July issue of Dogs Today . Terrierman's Top Ten Tips for Avoiding Expense & Misery Two stories recently cro...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Roadkill Blues

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Roadkill is a 20 th Century phenomenon , which is to say that we did not have it in the 19 th Century when the roads were populated by hor...
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