(n.) A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have found that domestic dogs and dingoes are monomorphic for the same electrophoretic alleles at a further 15 loci, and polymorphic for the same alleles at a 30th locus.
(2) Polymerase chain reaction, in combination with direct DNA sequencing, was used to compare DNA from cysts and adult worms from dingoes.
(3) This article describes an investigation of inter- and intraspecific variation in three small populations of wild Canidae-wolf, coyote, and dingo.
(4) Photograph: Nevill Keating Pictures Ltd He didn't even have a skin to help with the dingo, and produced an adorably fluffy and very un-wild looking dog.
(5) Surely these latter institutions are of more cultural value to you than naive treatments of kangaroo with a mouse's head and a dingo that looks like a fox in wolf's clothing.
(6) The kangaroo and the dingo were exhibited at the Society of Artists in London, and Banks's own portrait by Joshua Reynolds was shown at the Royal Academy.
(7) During lactation, female rodents, dingoes, and kangaroos consume urine and feces excreted by the young.
(8) The family Canidae serologically may be divided into two main groups: 1) the genus Canis which includes the wolf, domestic dog, dingo, jackal and 2) species which significantly differ from the former (the fox, polar fox, dog fox, fennec).
(9) Stubbs had even less to go on for the dingo, which is no doubt why Portrait of a Large Dog looks more like something you might enter for Crufts than a feral beast from the outback.
(10) On the south western Downs, where sheep-farming predominates, the prevalence in cattle was much lower, probably because of fewer dingoes.
(11) Twenty-four had dingoes and wallabies but only 8 had feral pigs.
(12) No significant differences were found in any of the parameters studied except the enzyme level of NADH-MR which was significantly lower in dingoes (P less than 0.05).
(13) Also, 50 intestinal tracts from dingoes from southern Queensland were examined between October 1981 and November 1983.
(14) "The dingo looks like it is about to pounce on something; it has a hard stare, so maybe that's what Stubbs was trying to get across."
(15) The saved items included two George Stubbs paintings, including the first depictions of a kangaroo and a dingo in Western art, and maps of Hampton Court.
(16) Small foci of the domestic strain of E. granulosus may be maintained in a cycle involving dingoes, macropods and possibly feral pigs in cattle raising areas of coastal Queensland.
(17) I can take or leave the Maritime Museum's argument that the pictures belong with a portrait of Cook by Nathaniel Dance commissioned by Stubbs and memorabilia from the Endeavour voyage, and understand Aussie irritation at the somewhat dingo-in-a-manger attitude of the Brits who didn't seem to care much about the paintings when they were in private collections, but were suddenly jumping up and down as soon as it looked like they might be on their way to Canberra.
(18) "We predict that Wallaby will find an amazing 600,000 new galaxies and Dingo 100,000, spread over trillions of cubic light years of space."
(19) The sylvatic strain of E. granulosus was found in 36 dingoes, the Australian mainland domestic strain in 4, and a further 5 dingoes were infected but the strain was not identified.
(20) The strain of E. granulosus in both patients was genetically indistinguishable from that found in macropods, dingoes and sheep from New South Wales and the United Kingdom.
Hyena
Definition:
(n.) Any carnivorous mammal of the family Hyaenidae, of which three living species are known. They are large and strong, but cowardly. They feed chiefly on carrion, and are nocturnal in their habits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pasting, a stereotypic form of anal gland scent marking, was studied in 2 cohorts (N = 20) of captive spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta).
(2) Hyena disease was first reported in France in 1975 and since then has been recognized in many countries.
(3) They've grown used to holding their bladders and bowels, being stalked by wild boars and hyenas and, during the rainy season, watching out for snakes.
(4) This morphology is considered as an adaptation to stabilizing the body while the hyena carries large and heavy load.
(5) Three of the 4 dominant hyenas ate substantial quantities of the food during this group feeding, and all 4 hyenas ate the following day when offered the food alone.
(6) Mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), hyena (Hyaena hyaena), cats and dogs were susceptible.
(7) Known as the “hyena”, this man travels between villages, paid by the community to have sex with girls as young as nine, often exposing them to unwanted pregnancy and HIV infection.
(8) He grumbled last week : "The worst of these hyenas would assemble outside press conference rooms in packs and discuss ways to unsettle the panel after organising committee board meetings."
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The camera traps also revealed an extraordinary range of other forest dwellers, including forest elephants , olive baboons , spotted hyena as well as red river and giant forest hogs , crested guinea fowl and aardvark .
(10) Among them were primitive versions of hippopotamuses, rhinos, horses, antelopes, and dangerous predators such as big cats and hyenas.
(11) Recently, deer, antelope, hyena, skunk, gerbil, monkey, and human scents have been investigated.
(12) Surely the nightly calls from the hyenas or the diet of raw kidneys and goat brain soup would make us bolt back to a five-star hotel.
(13) Lions and hyenas persisted: lions hunted reindeer across the frozen wastes of Britain until 11,000 years ago .
(14) Within some 10 or 15,000 years, the continent had lost its straight-tusked elephants, forest rhinos, hippos, hyenas and monstrous scimitar cats.
(15) Even during hte one-month peak, the major predator on calves, the spotted hyena, is unable to feed to satiation.
(16) The hemoglobin from spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) exhibits in its alpha- and beta-chains 22 and 20 exchanges, respectively, compared to human hemoglobin.
(17) Frankly, some of the personalised attacks on him and his father have been deeply unsavoury,” he added, saying some Labour MPs were “behaving like hyenas”.
(18) On Day 3, the dominant hyena and 3 or 4 members of her group were offered the food simultaneously.
(19) In 2015, startup CEO Greg Gopman attempted to make amends for his own anti-homeless screed (he described the homeless as “the lower part of society” and “degenerates [who] gather like hyenas” and bemoaned the “burden and liability [of] having them so close to us) by launching a program of his own to “solve” homelessness.
(20) The primary structure of the alpha- and beta-chains of hemoglobin from spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta, Hyenidae) is presented.