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All domestic animals are descended from wild ancestors.
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Discover Magazine, 5 July 2024
And Mike Ryan, who heads the global health agency’s health emergencies program, said the ongoing presence of the virus in wild birds will continue to complicate efforts to control H5N1’s spread in domestic animals.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 15 July 2024
For years, scientists have tried to understand what allowed domestic animals, like rabbits, to thrive in the wild.
—Chantelle Lee, TIME, 27 June 2024
After all, the virus infects not just domestic animals, but wild ones, too: It could be carried by a pigeon or a barn swallow.
—Eric Boodman, STAT, 16 July 2024
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Discover Magazine, 5 July 2024
And Mike Ryan, who heads the global health agency’s health emergencies program, said the ongoing presence of the virus in wild birds will continue to complicate efforts to control H5N1’s spread in domestic animals.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 15 July 2024
For years, scientists have tried to understand what allowed domestic animals, like rabbits, to thrive in the wild.
—Chantelle Lee, TIME, 27 June 2024
After all, the virus infects not just domestic animals, but wild ones, too: It could be carried by a pigeon or a barn swallow.
—Eric Boodman, STAT, 16 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for domestic animal
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Public health experts are advising people to avoid contact with sick animals and to keep their pets at a safe distance as well.Christine Clarridge, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
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There’s also thoughtfully designed furniture that’s made for the pet’s comfort but still looks stylish (like a woven wall hammock).Malia Griggs, Glamour, 21 Oct. 2024
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Infections primarily occur in mammals—often wild and domestic herbivores like sheep, cows, goats and deer—as well as some bird species.Robert Hart, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
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Of the 61 species of large terrestrial herbivores that were alive in the late Pleistocene (129,000 to 11,700 years ago), only eight of these species are still around today.Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2024
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Public perceptions of carnivores have been extensively studied around the world, with conservationists trialing different ways to mitigate conflicts with stakeholders—from paying ranchers for animals lost to predation to using specialized guard dogs to protect herds.Emily Soreghan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
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Polar bears are the world's largest land carnivore, but attacks on humans are extremely uncommon – only 73 were recorded between 1870 and 2014, in Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia and the US.Harriet Marsden, The Week UK, theweek, 30 Sep. 2024
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Among the species declines that have led to billions fewer birds in North America over the last half-century, grassland birds and aerial insectivores have been hit especially hard, having lost many bugs that once fed them.Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
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Belonging to the same group of mammals as sloths and anteaters, armadillos are voracious insectivores that eat large numbers of beetles, grubs, ants, termites, and other insects, grabbing them with their sticky tongues.Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Domestic animal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/domestic%20animal. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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