Samuel Campbell and Lisa Parker had a date one night in October 2007. After dinner they went to the Springboro Eagles Club for drinks. At about 12:30 Parker decided to walk home because she lived nearby and was intoxicated, but Campbell stayed until after 1 a.m. He realized he had Parker’s car keys and decided to go to her apartment to give them back. He saw her lying on the couch through the window in the front door, pounded loudly for five to ten minutes, but could not rouse her. He went to the back door and pounded there, but again with...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Small Dogs Appeared Early in the History of Canine Domestication, but Did This Happen in the Middle East?
Research published in 2007 indicated that small dogs share a variant of the IGF1 gene on dog chromosome 15. Variants in the IGF1 (insulin-like growth factor 1) gene are “fixed in the majority of small distantly related dog breeds which suggests that small size evolved early in the history of domestication.” A few giant breeds (mastiffs, bullmastiffs, and rottweilers) share the “small” allele, but no wild canid so far tested has been found to have...
Sunday, May 15, 2011
The Killers of Actaeon
According to the most common version of the myth, Actaeon, son of Aristaeus and Autonoë, was hunting when he surprised Artemis bathing in a wood. Angered, she turned him into a stag and he was torn apart by his own hunting dogs. After their master's death, the dogs searched for him in vain, howling in their grief, until the centaur Chiron made a lifelike image of Actaeon to soothe them. There are many variations of the story, but the most common...
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Wolves May Lose Federal Protection in 29 States
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to substantially reduce North American wolf protection by declaring all or parts of 29 eastern states as not being in the historical range of the gray wolf, thereby removing those areas from the application of the Endangered Species Act as to gray wolves. The 29 states (or parts of states) where gray wolves will no longer protected, if the regulatory change is made final, are Maine, Massachusetts,...
Monday, May 9, 2011
Egyptian Jackal Reclassified as the African Wolf by Genetics Researchers
The golden jackal, Canis aureus, classified by Linnaeus in 1758, is found throughout north and east Africa, the Middle East, southeastern Europe, and parts of Asia. In 1833, Hemprich and Ehrenberg identified the Egyptian jackal, Canis aureus lupaster, as a subspecies of golden jackal, though Thomas Huxley noted as early as 1880 that the Egyptian jackal seemed suspiciously similar to the Indian wolf. A graduate student at Leeds, Magda Nassef, had...
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Anthropomorphism in Antiquity
Consider the following account: "I myself reared a hound with the greyest of grey eyes, and she was fast and a hard worker and spirited and agile, so that when she was young she once dealt with four hares in a day. And apart from that she is most gentle (I still had her when I was writing this) and most fond of humans, and never previously did any other dog long to be with me and my fellow huntsman Megillus as she does. For since she was retired...
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