Canid

Count me among the few not captivated by Anderson's animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's book; I found it as stilted and twee as the title canid's tippy-toe gait. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Steve-- if you go into my archives you will find some material on the New England wild canid, which is rather like the red wolf but apparently a bit different genetically. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Whatta Good Dog, I have always felt having a dog about is essential for anyone who lives in a rural area, I mean a real Dog sized dog, not like an animated dustmop or some other gerbil sized canid. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Allaby took 45 samples from the wounds of the deer carcasses with the aim of testing specifically for DNA from the saliva of any canid (for instance dog or fox) or felid (cat) species which had killed or scavenged from the deer. ❋ Unknown (2012)

We use geometric morphometrics to quantify the diversity of skull shape in 106 breeds of domestic dog, in three wild canid species, and across the order Carnivora. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In this study, I compare patterns of intracranial allometry and morphologic diversity between the domestic dog and wild canid species. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even now, watching this seventy-pound lump of brown and white canid sprawled across the couch, farting in his sleep (he just can't help ruining the planet!) ❋ Unknown (2010)

No other canid, or other species, shows the same diversity of body types within a species, from the four-pound papillon to the two-hundred-pound Newfoundland; from slender dogs with long snouts and whiplike tails to pudgy dogs with foreshortened noses and stubs of tails. ❋ ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ (2009)

Barking, especially alarm barking, is one of the clearest distinctions between dogs and other canid species. ❋ ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ (2009)

Those that do mean something should be explained by taking into consideration the natural history of your dog—as an animal, as a canid, and as a particular breed. ❋ ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ (2009)

Early canid domestication: The farm-fox experiment. ❋ ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ (2009)

Unlike any other North American canid, the kit fox uses burrows year round. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Using genetic analysis of gray wolf populations from North America and Europe, the researchers traced the source of the dominant gene responsible for dark coat color in wolves to domesticated dogs and conclude the trait was passed to the gray wolf population, as well as to coyotes, by mating between the closely-related wild and domestic canid species. ❋ Staq Mavlen (2009)

The Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis, EN) is an endemic species found in the Afroalpine ecosystem of the Ethiopian Highlands; with less than 450 individuals in seven small and isolated populations, this wolf is the rarest canid in the world. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These pedomorphic or neotenous dogs, who retain more features of juvenile members of canid species into adulthood, look least like adult wolves. ❋ ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ (2009)

Most canid researchers agree that wolves pay more attention than dogs do to physical objects and handle these objects more capably. ❋ ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ (2009)

Even without getting coated with fur, the knowledge of dog science brings us closer to an understanding of, and appreciation for, dog behavior: how it arises from the ancestral canid, from domestication, from their sensory acuteness, and from their sensitivity to us. ❋ ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ (2009)

Instead of observing dogs and extrapolating backward, he examined another social canid species and propagated them forward. ❋ ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ (2009)