Sentence examples for canid from inspiring English sources
noun
Any member of the family Canidae, including dogs, wolves, foxes, coyotes and jackals.
They have constructed, by examining numerous specimens, maps of the injuries sustained by two extinct carnivores abundant in the tar sabre-tooths and a large canid called tar sabre-toothsd thus illuminandd the animalargeunting tecanidues.Dire wolves, as Ms Balisi and Ms Brown show, took most punishment to their skulls.
In the Chauvet cave in the Ardèche region of France, which contains the earliest known cave paintings, there is a 50-metre trail of footprints made by a boy of about ten alongside those of a large canid that appears to be part-wolf, part-dog.
The smallest canid is the fennec.
It has 48 teeth, 6 more than any other canid.
There has been some disagreement over the years about whether the jackal is a true canid, but the four known varieties are now thought to be part of the same genus.
Its ancestral line appears to have diverged from canid stock during the Late Miocene Epoch and to have developed into modern species through such Pliocene forms as Hyaenarctos of Europe, Asia, and North America.
Not domestic dogs as we know them now, but some form of early dog that made it easier for the human-canid relationship to develop.
If anything, dogs resemble juvenile rather than fully adult canids, a sort of arrested development which accounts for the way they remain dependent on their human owners throughout their lives.But what makes the dog-wolf paradigm especially misleading, Mr Bradshaw argues, is that until recently, the studies of wolves were of the wrong wolves in extremely artificial conditions.
Several fossil canids from Europe, the researchers found, also belong to one or other of these groups, as do the continent's modern wolves.
And that, as they describe in Science, is what Dr Thalmann, Dr Wayne and the rest of the team did.In this section Face the facts The company of wolves Aerosniff Thyme to touch ReprintsThey extracted mitochondrial DNA from 18 fossil canids, making sure to include the earliest doglike creatures that show skeletal signs of domestication.
Instead, GeneDupe's pooches are pre-wired to recognise the company's proprietary DoggieLoos, which have a distinctive odour that is perceptible to canids, but not humans.There are still a few technical difficulties to overcome, of course, but Dr Fril plans to start taking orders soon.
