Bow Wow, Wolf Wolf: prevention and perception of dog bites

Wolf Wolf--The Ramifications of Frivolous Appeals

West Nile Virus Encephalitis and Myocarditis in Wolf and Dog

S its 1999 introduction in New York, West Nile virus (WNV) has spread to >40 states, causing seasonal mosquito-borne disease in humans, horses, and birds (1–7). We recently identified two Illinois canids (a captive wolf and a domestic dog) with severe disease associated with WNV infection. Outside the Western Hemisphere, WNV has been endemic for decades (4,8–11). Canids have not been thought to...

DoGSD: the dog and wolf genome SNP database

The rapid advancement of next-generation sequencing technology has generated a deluge of genomic data from domesticated dogs and their wild ancestor, grey wolves, which have simultaneously broadened our understanding of domestication and diseases that are shared by humans and dogs. To address the scarcity of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data provided by authorized databases and to make ...

Integrating social ecology in explanations of wolf–dog behavioral differences

Whereas studies in comparative cognition normally invoke ecology and social organization to account for differences in social behaviour and cognition across species, dog–wolf differences have so far been explained mostly as a result of direct human selection for desirable traits (e.g., tameness, attention to humans, sociability). Yet, as will be reviewed in this paper, dogs and wolves also diff...

Bear-Baiting May Exacerbate Wolf-Hunting Dog Conflict

BACKGROUND The influence of policy on the incidence of human-wildlife conflict can be complex and not entirely anticipated. Policies for managing bear hunter success and depredation on hunting dogs by wolves represent an important case because with increasing wolves, depredations are expected to increase. This case is challenging because compensation for wolf depredation on hunting dogs as comp...