Livestock guardian dogs, LGDs, and the value of predatory habits in LGDs as it associates with their function as working dogs will be the subject of a Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in San Angelo webinar on Aug. 17.
The complimentary webinar will be on the Zoom conference platform at 3 p.m. There is no cost to go to however individuals need to preregister on the LGD Facebook page or at https://tx.ag/Aug17LGDwebinar.
The webinar becomes part of a continuous series concentrated on LGDs that includes Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and market specialists covering a wide variety of pertinent subjects.
Speaker, webinar focus
The visitor speaker on Aug. 17 will be Kathryn Lord, Ph.D., postdoctoral partner in the Karlsson Lab at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
“This is a great opportunity for producers to learn firsthand about research that Dr. Lord and the late Dr. Raymond Coppinger performed with LGDs across the U.S.,” said Bill Costanzo, AgriLife Research animals guardian dog expert, San Angelo. “I am very excited to be able to have Dr. Lord present again to the producers who follow our program. Everyone learned so much from her last webinar in November that I invited her to give another webinar on the second phase of LGD development.”
Lord is a previous trainee of Coppinger, who was a well-known animals guardian dog research study teacher. He was accountable for bringing LGDs from Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Coppinger’s research study with LGD habits is still a few of the most comprehensive work ever done, said Costanzo.
Lord’s primary interest remains in the evolutionary advancement of animal habits, and its application to the management of domestic and wild types. Her research study and publications have actually concentrated on the development, advancement and genes of dog and wolf habits.
Costanzo said he hopes the webinar causes some shared DNA research study on LGD habits that might help address concerns about them and their function as animals guardians.
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