The Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) is the causative agent of a complex infection present in wide range hosts. It pathogen that affects various orders species, including primates, cetaceans, and families carnivores. should be noted virus can transmitted to wildlife, aquatic carnivores, through contact with domestic canids. This route transmission increasingly common, due fact species invade habita...

Dogs were first domesticated 31 000-41 000 years ago. Humanity has experienced ecological costs and benefits from interactions with dogs and wolves. We propose that humans inherited a dual response of attraction or aversion that expresses itself independently to domestic and wild canids. The dual response has had far-reaching consequences for the ecology and evolution of all three taxa, includi...

Hybridisation between wild and domestic taxa raises complex questions for conservation. Genetic advances offer new methods hybrid identification, yet social cultural factors can influence study design, the interpretation, application, communication of results. A relevant illustration is hybridisation dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) canids, such as grey wolves (C. lupus). For regional European mon...

Wild felids and canids are usually the main predators in the food chains where they dwell and are almost invisible to behavior and ecology researchers. Due to their grooming behavior, they tend to swallow shed hair, which shows up in the feces. DNA found in hair shafts can be used in molecular studies that can unravel, for instance, genetic variability, reproductive mode and family structure, a...

Maintaining wild animals in captivity often requires chemical immobilisation to achieve various diagnostic, surgical and management interventions. Four dholes, two Indian grey wolves and four Indian jackals were immobilised using ketamine-xylazine combination for either medical or management interventions. Based on the estimated body weight, canids were darted upon with 6-8 mg kg-1 ketamine and...

Interpretations of dog burials made by ancient foraging groups have tended to be based upon our own relationships with such animals and modern western cosmological and ontological concepts. Osteological studies of early dogs often focus only on issues of taxonomy, and as a result very little is known about these animals’ life histories. Eastern Siberia has produced many Holocene dog burials, bu...