4 résultats pour "huskie"

• huskie ou husky.

• Premier animal à avoir été domestiqué, le chien marque l'histoire humaine de son omniprésence temporelle et spatiale.

  L'évolution de l'espèce Dès l'âge du fer (I er millénaire avant notre ère), la population canine se diversifia, et des variations importantes de la taille apparurent. Avec la civilisation égyptienne, le type du lévrier se développa. Mais c'est à partir de la période romaine qu'émergèrent des types de chiens bien différenciés. On distingua alors les chiens destinés à la chasse, ceux qui étaient employés à la guerre, les gardiens de troupeaux, les chiens de course et de combat (molosses). Puis le...

• Butcher Wins the Iditarod.

  Butcher's winning streak ended in 1989 when she finished in second place, 65 minutes behind Joe Runyan. She was back on top a year later, gliding down FrontStreet two hours ahead of Runyan. A boisterous crowd of Nome locals greeted Butcher with sirens and banners. Her time of 11 days 1 hour 53 minutes sliced 13hours off the course record she had set in 1986. Conditions for the 1990 race were particularly unforgiving. The 70 mushers contended with the deepest snow in 25 years, several unseaso...

• Ant - biology.

  The workers of many ant species carry a stinger within the hind end of the gaster. These ants use the stinger to defend against their enemies. In some species, workerants lack a stinger but use the tip of their gaster to squirt or dab poison at other small animals and when fighting battles with other ants, fending off predators, or killinginsects or other animals that they use as food. III PHYSIOLOGY Ants have a rigid, external skeleton called an exoskeleton that gives the soft, inner body its...