Endoparasites of the Coyote (Canis latrans), a Recent Migrant to Insular Newfoundland

Coyote (Canis latrans)

Dominance and neophobia in coyote (Canis latrans) breeding pairs

Previous research suggests that within social animals, subordinate individuals are less neophobic than dominant individuals. We investigated the effect of social status on neophobic responses using 10 captive coyote breeding pairs. Social status was determined from observations of feeding behavior and agonistic interactions during a series of reference trials. Once dominance was established, we...

A Note on the Nitrogen Metabolism of the Coyote (canis Latrans, Say)

In 1905 Swain1 discovered among the nitrogenous constituents of a coyote’s urine a substance to which he assigned the empirical formula, C12H9NJ04. This substance excited our interest by its alleged resemblance to urocanic acid, C12H12N404, a body which, described first by Jaffe2 in 1874, was for a long time known only as an excessively rare constituent of the urine of the dog,3 but was found r...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Relaxin as a diagnostic tool for pregnancy in the coyote (Canis latrans).

The diagnosis of pregnancy in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris) often employs specialized equipment, experienced staff, and the cooperation of the bitch. These procedures can be challenging when the subject is a wild canid, particularly in a field setting. In addition, reproductive hormone assays are unreliable as a diagnostic tool because the estrous profiles of pregnant and pseudopregnant c...