nemessica

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ᑐᑌᑎᕮ geek • ENGR • animal behaviorist (CAPBT/CPD) • canine predatory behavior researcher.
🇪🇺 Pastoral dogs implementation as an active non-lethal predator prevention support.
🇵🇱 "K9 = canine" project
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canine behavior 🇵🇱 🐾🐺https://k9hacking.pl/
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Retrieval itself stands for a grabbed 'prey' being dropped intentionally nearby by a dog which returned with it to the handler.
To fetch means to trigger a specific behavior chain, associated with a prey drive as a part of dog-human relations.

Fetching wolves, canine behavior documented
https://k9hacking.com/fetching-wolves-canine-behavior-documented/

Fetching wolves, canine behavior documented

13 wolf pups were researched by putting them through standard behavioral tests usually used by dog breeders to assess predispositions of working dogs. 3 of 13 tested wolf cubs spontaneously showed interest to the ball being thrown - 2 of them fetched it twice, 3rd one did it every time.

Canis lupus in its natural habitat is an exemplary wild predator. Living in family packs it hunts (food finding), stays safe (active protection or passive risk avoidance) and reproduces.
To sum up - it survives, where one of conditions to be fulfilled is avoiding a human.

Yellowstone wolf pups car accident - flight zone recon
https://k9hacking.com/yellowstone-wolf-pups-accident-flight-zone-recon/

Yellowstone wolf pups car accident - flight zone recon

Canis lupus in its natural habitat is an exemplary wild predator. Living in family packs it hunts (food finding), stays safe (active protection or passive risk avoidance) and reproduces. To sum up - it survives, where one of conditions to be fulfilled is avoiding a human.

Siberian discovery confirmed the earliest evidence for dog breeding taking place on remote Zhokhov Island.
New study, concerning the North American Arctic area, finds Inuit sledge dogs unique and specialised to help them to thrive.

Study reveals the Inuit sled dogs' specific heritage
https://k9hacking.com/study-reveals-the-inuit-sled-dogs-heritage/

#science #canisfamiliaris

Study reveals the Inuit sled dogs' specific heritage

Siberian discovery confirmed the earliest evidence for dog breeding taking place on remote Zhokhov Island. New study, concerning the North American Arctic area, finds Inuit sledge dogs unique and specialised to help them to thrive.

Yellowstone Wolf Project has been delivering its regular voluntary reports annually since 1995. Each of them includes collected data, dispersal and prey-predator relations study, exceptional observations..

Yellowstone wolves quarter-century after - shortly about territoriality
https://k9hacking.com/yellowstone-wolves-quarter-century-after/

Yellowstone wolves quarter-century after - shortly about territoriality

Almost a quarter of a century passed by since the first wolf individuals were released into the open park boundary, as the missing element in its natural ecosystem to be balanced, with a hope they would settle there permanently.

Livestock-guarding dogs work autonomously. Immediate reaction on stranger's approaching (predatory animal, unrecognised person) is essential - LGD intends to distract an intruder closing in, to prevent a potential attack on grazing animals within protected pasture.

Livestock-Guarding Dog adolescence draft
https://k9hacking.com/lgd-adolescence-draft/

#scicomm #science #caninescience #animalbehavior

Livestock-Guarding Dog adolescence draft

Livestock-guarding dogs work autonomously. Immediate reaction on stranger's approaching (predatory animal, unrecognised person) is essential - LGD intends to distract an intruder closing in, to prevent a potential attack on grazing animals within protected pasture.

About implicit knowledge in the book and folk-art which inspires independent artists, with myriad ideas of its realisations.

Dreamcatcher's folk tradition vs fiction
https://k9hacking.com/dreamcatchers-folk-tradition-vs-fiction/

Recent study suggests that in the distant past, Tibetan mastiffs (as a domestic dog type of breed) could survive in harsh, low-oxygen high mountains' environment thanks to being randomly hybridised with mountain wolf individuals (vide Tibetan wolf), by gaining hypoxia tolerance.

Study finds Tibetan Mastiff wolf-hybridised to survive
https://k9hacking.com/tibetan-mastiffs-genotyp-wolf-hacked/

#science #canislupus #behavioralecology

Study finds Tibetan Mastiff wolf-hybridised to survive

Recent study suggests that in the distant past, Tibetan mastiffs (as a domestic dog type of breed) could survive in harsh, low-oxygen high mountains' environment thanks to being randomly hybridised with mountain wolf individuals (vide Tibetan wolf), by gaining hypoxia tolerance.

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