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tym92:
ok
But I thought most of the foreign dogs do contract parvo from the local dogs or...

TheSourcerer:
if my son and his sons all stick their finger into this hole as their great grad father ,grand father ,father before them did they surely would be a change in the finger different from their regular peers who their fathers never had to put a finger in the keyhole, there's a Japanese tradition in a remote village the longer your neck the more suited you are ,they used rings to make sure their necks are kept strsght and long and yes these Japanese children all naturally had longer necks them the regular people .
So you do not believe evolution is taking /took place?

TheSourcerer:
yes humans will evolve.....

Take for instance I forcefully place my finger in a key hole , do you know In next 30 years my finger would take perfect the shape of this key hole , on a larger spectrum thats evolution .the finger evolved to adapt to its current situation

Mrlola:
Good evening Dr.

I noticed this wound on my dog's sometime last weekend. The Vet recommended that I should apply sawke cream. The problem is that the wound is spreading instead of healing. Kindly come to my rescue please.

Thanks

tym92:
Why is it that local dogs (ekuke) don't easily contract parvo and the likes, is it that they have strong immune system against them or what?

tym92:
I'm enjoying this thread...
More grace and wisdom to Doctor SeunH who has been responding to various issues since 2020.

Adexxi:
No sir , pls help sir

Adexxi:
Good evening Dr Seun,
Pls I bought a 7 weeks rott, I fed him with booster for two days which the guy who sold it to me gave me.

When the feed finished I got her Dr Tessy crunchy, it quite obvious that she doesn't really like as she doesn't eat it immediately when serve so I do keep it there with her till the next morning , then I will meet my empty plate

So I was so curious and just yesterday I got her booster feed, I soaked it in milk and egg she ate some portion unfortunately this morning she didn't eat any , honestly I was so sad because am getting used to her very active and smart infact her bark is like a 5 months dog

I also dewormed her this morning sir, I ate moimoi this morning myself which I gave to her and she ate it very well , was amazed

My question is maybe she love to take my own food ; , pls note sir , her food she ignored this morning I gave it to my local dog which he ate all .Thanks sir

SeyiJayden:
Good evening sir, please my dog has been vomiting since yesterday what can I do to stop this

sinkhole:
There are plenty of mythological stories in the Bible and same got replicated in the Quran.
There could had been some floods that was widespread in that region, and who can blame them for thinking that the whole of the world was what they could see! People around the world once thought that the whole is just what they could see.

akpota:
My dog has this issue too.
It have been scathing and hair loss.
Very stubborn mange and it can smell too

manontree:
Sad. For her to do this and even the changing of clothes somewhere else suggest premeditation

It is highly likely her conscience is bothering her about something she did that day. She felt by telling you half truth, she would ease the burden on her conscience

She hasn't told you the entire truth and forgiveness should be the last discussion at the moment

Workch:
I do, Huamns are not just apes, humans are animals. A little effort to observe a human cell under the microscope and analyze our metabolism bears all the hallmark of an animal by classification. Futher analysis to anatomical features puts us in mammalian and ape categories. We cannot say otherwise because we don't like how it sounds.

you told me this because you don't understand speciation after several attempts to explain it to you.

it is, evolution is the only reasonable explanation for that unless you want to insert magic into it.

no sir, you don't understand speciation. You didn't learn that part properly in school. I have biochemist friends who don't understand evolution like you do. So being an anatomist is not a guarantee that you know evolution. You at still struggling to understand speciation. You want a bacteria to be me a dog before you call it speciation.

read about it first. You can learn if you are allergic to reading. Arguing cannot make you Learn, you have to get information from credible sources and you can only do that by reading. So go read what I posted. It doesn't hurt

mentioned where I said mutations leads to new individuals. That's not science


You are the person who doesn't understand evolution. You have sciolistic view on it and you dont understand the mechanism obviously and most of all you are not willing to listen.
You do not understand taxonomy as well why you cannot differentate a species from a family.
You inferred that finch becomes another species of finch is not soeciation because you lack the basic understanding that finch is a common name for a specific family of bird and not a species.

You are the same person who doesn't understand that rat is not a species but a family of animals with various species. Even after so many attempt to explain to you, you either didn't read my post or you don't understand.
Finch is not a species, saying that finches are still finches even when they are different species hence not speciation is not scientific. You can read up on that.
And yes the origin of human is not a mystery, it's well documented that we evolved from prehistoric apes.

akpota:
My dog has this issue too.
It have been scathing and hair loss.
Very stubborn mange and it can smell too

Workch:
Humans are apes, we didn't just evolve from apes, we are apes. That's not a claim, it's a fact

nope, we have evidence in galapafos finches that speciation is fact. We also have a lab experiment in lambda bacteriophage that proves this.

yes they are, do you want to explain why the fossil records are so consistent with radiometric saying and geological timelins and with the time the first modern human fossil has been recorded outside of the fact that we transitioned from them?

×you being an anatomist doesn't make any difference here. You have genuinely shown that you don't understand the concept of speciation and claissification in biology. I also have a degree in biochemistry, masters in clinical biochemistry and a foreign certification in virology and evolutionary biology, it still doesn't make any sense if I do not understand the topic very well.
Tiktaalik, Archaeopteryx, Australopithecus afarensis, Pakicetids, Ambulocetus read about them.

No I said mutation can give rise to variation and genetic drift. I don't know where you brought individual into it, only reproduction can gives rise to new individuals.

this is not evolution, you are thinking about magic.

I didn't say evolution occurred randomly, you made that up because evolution is not random. It's driven by natural selection.

artificial process cannot escalate breeding of 50000 generations in the flies that you mentioned

The origin of man is not a mystery, we evolved from prehistoric apes just as other organisms evolved from other animals. The evidence is overwhelming

yes exactly

Workch:
lol,
The scientific name of naked mole rat is Heterocephalus glaber with 60 chromosomes.
The scientific name of Norwegian brown rat is Rattus norvegicus with 22 chromosomes.


On what scientific basis do you expect them to mate? They are not even the same genus. "Rat" is not a species, it's probably a family of animals and not a species

Workch:
no they cannot, a mole rat cannot mate with Norwegian rat, a whistar albino rat cannot mate with a mice. Their chromosomes do not pair.

A housecat cannot mate with a lion, a cheetah cannot mate with a Jaguar, they have different pairs of chromosome.
It's the same way a chimpanzee cannot mate with a gorilla, an orangutan cannot mate with humans. They are all apes with different pairs of chromsomes.

A swan cannot mate with domestic duck, a goose cannot mate with a swan. They are all Anatida

A bee cannot mate with a honnet, they are both Hymenoptera.

You need to unlearn that idea
You don't know what a specie is.
We have over 40 species of wolf today, they cannot mate with each other not to even asuume that a wolf mates with a domestic dog. They are not different breeds, they are different species.

A gray wolf in north america and Europe cannot mate with white wolves in Asia or Dholes in India. They are different species but they are all wolves. They have different scientific names in terms of species.

You need to learn this rightly

Workch:
no they cannot, a mole rat cannot mate with Norwegian rat, a whistar albino rat cannot mate with a mice. Their chromosomes do not pair.

A housecat cannot mate with a lion, a cheetah cannot mate with a Jaguar, they have different pairs of chromosome.
It's the same way a chimpanzee cannot mate with a gorilla, an orangutan cannot mate with humans. They are all apes with different pairs of chromsomes.

A swan cannot mate with domestic duck, a goose cannot mate with a swan. They are all Anatida

A bee cannot mate with a honnet, they are both Hymenoptera.

You need to unlearn that idea
You don't know what a specie is.
We have over 40 species of wolf today, they cannot mate with each other not to even asuume that a wolves mates with a domestic dog. They are not different breeds, they are different species.

A gray wolf in north america and Europe cannot mate with white wolves in Asia or Dholes in India. They are different species but they are all wolves. They have different scientific names in terms of species.

You need to learn this rightly but I understand what you man by breeds, you are just confusing breeds with Species.

Workch:
We won't say they are another species if they can still mate with each. Look at it like this, we have different species of rats, they cannot mate with earth other, they are sill rats.
We have different species of dogs, including the painted dogs, gray wolf's and domestics dogs, they cannot mate, they are still dogs.
We have different species of cats, they cannot mate, they are still cats.

It's the same way we have different species and new species of finches that cannot mate hence speciation.
There's no amount of advancement that can make about 50,000 - 100,000 generations of flies possible in 50years. That's about the amount of generations you need to start seeing any effect of speciation. The ideal way to experiment speciation is in microorganisms, they have the ability fo reproduce fast and Create new species within our lifetime.
artifical breeding of dogs is recent in the context of evolution considering that we didn't start domestication of animals until recently in respect to 4billion+ years of the age of earth. Now do the scaling
I think you have issues knowing what a species actually is.

Bacteria is not a species, bacteria in taxonomy is a kingdom. So you got to still go down to phyla, classes, orders, family, genus before getting to species. Speciation deals with emergence of different species and not different genus, family or order etc. So your comment about bacteria still being bacteria is a misinterpretation of what speciation deals with. You are assuming that a bacteria has to become like amoeba in the kingdom protozoa or a dog in kingdom animalia for it to be called speciation. No that's not how it works

For example, if you observe E. Coli for another species, we can call them E. Colus, that's speciation because it cannot exchange genetic material with its parent bacteria. It mustn't a case where E. Coli becomes a dog before you say speciation has happened. As long as a species cannot mate with its parents species, it's speciation and we have observed that happened

Workch:
We won't say they are another species if they can still mate with each. Look at it like this, we have different species of rats, they cannot mate with earth other, they are sill rats.
We have different species of dogs, including the painted dogs, gray wolf's and domestics dogs, they cannot mate, they are still dogs.
We have different species of cats, they cannot mate, they are still cats.

It's the same way we have different species and new species of finches that cannot mate hence speciation.
There's no amount of advancement that can make about 50,000 - 100,000 generations of flies possible in 50years. That's about the amount of generations you need to start seeing any effect of speciation. The ideal way to experiment speciation is in microorganisms, they have the ability fo reproduce fast and Create new species within our lifetime.
artifical breeding of dogs is recent in the context of evolution considering that we didn't start domestication of animals until recently in respect to 4billion+ years of the age of earth. Now do the scaling
I think you have issues knowing what a species actually is.

Bacteria is not a species, bacteria in taxonomy is a kingdom. So you got to still go down to phyla, classes, orders, family, genus before getting to species. Speciation deals with emergence of different species and not different genus, family or order etc. So your comment about bacteria still being bacteria is a misinterpretation of what speciation deals with. You are assuming that a bacteria has to become like amoeba in the kingdom protozoa or a dog in kingdom animalia for it to be called speciation. No that's not how it works

For example, if you observe E. Coli for another species, we can call them E. Colus, that's speciation because it cannot exchange genetic material with its parent bacteria. It mustn't a case where E. Coli becomes a dog before you say speciation has happened. As long as a species cannot mate with its parents species, it's speciation and we have observed that happened

Workch:
speciation is not a mystery. It has been observed.

Kaibab and Abert's squirrels - Separate squirrel species evolved after the Grand Canyon was formed, resulting in different squirrel species evolving on either side of the canyon. We have observed a new species of this squirrels recently

Read up this article on natgeographics https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/speciation/

Workch:
good write up but we have observed speciation in the last 10 decades.
A good example of speciation which happened naturally is the galapagos finches. We have seen new species of these birds in recent years.
There has also been successful experiment performed it drive speciation in bacteriophage lambda in a lab in university of Michigan. You do not expect speciation to happen in 50years within a population of orgnaims as complex as a fly. I don't think any biologist today would expect a species of flies under controlled environments to have enough offsprings to drive speciation in 50years, that's not how it works.

Speciation is difficult to achieve using higher organism most times it takes several generations for it to happen, so you obviously don't think you would see speciation in artifical bedding of dogs within few decades or humans , that's really not how it works. It's more feasible to see it happen in very simple organisms like viruses and bacteria because we didn't even know about DNA until in the last century.

We have an experiment currently been conducted called the E coli experiment, this has proven every aspect of evolution and the remaining is speciation, although we already have evidence for speciation.

Time is key

Daveayo1:
One of the most useful threads on nairaland. Please I just want to ask a question, is veterinary medicine worth it? I'm studying agric extension and I dey reason myself to change to vet since it's more useful.

cornel994:
Hello Dr. seunH. i got the multivitamins for my boy and started giving him d drugs yesterday (1 drop of .5ml). its like its worst now. how many days does it take d drugs to work. he has refused to eat his dry food even when i added beef to it. i got crushed noodles, its still same. when i mix fish in the noodles, he just goes there to remove d fish and leave d rest of the meal, he is loosing weight and i am frustrated right now. what am i doing wrong

sylva1:
The teeth just fell off naturally, but she's doing fine, no pains or any discomfort whatsoever. She is a little over 5 months. I just want to know if there's anything I may need to do?

sylva1:
Hello Doctor, so I noticed my GSD lost it teeth this evening, anything to do?

cornel994:
ok, i should go to any petshop and request this and any brand will be given to me? how do i administer it. sorry for bothering you

cornel994:
thanks for the prompt response Dr. he isn't on any multivitamins presently