[DOC] [TLE] Why Do Dogs Walk in Circles Before Lying Down? - Live Science [PAR] Mar 28, 2011 ... Before lying down, dogs often circle their beds or wherever they've chosen to 
settle in for a nap. This curious canine behavior dates back to prehistoric times , 
when ... of "If You Tame Me: Understanding Our Connection With Animals," told ... 
"In the wild, the circling would flatten grasses or snow and would... [DOC] [TLE] Q: Why Do Dogs Circle, Dig Before Lying Down? - The Dodo [PAR] Feb 21, 2014 ... Depending on the dog and the situation, circling behavior can be cute (or, ... high 
stress job, dogs like to kick back and relax just like the rest of us. ... On the taiga 
or savannah, circling serves to beat down grass, dirt and ... your dog's little circle 
dance, this may be the animal's attempt to regulate temperature. [DOC] [TLE] Why Do Dogs Turn In Circles Before Lying Down? - Science ... [PAR] Apr 19, 2016 ... Why do my doggies circle around before they lie down in their baskets? ... There 
are so many reasons for this behaviour but back in ancestral genetics. ... The dog 
circles to flatten the grasses where it is about to lie. quandry, .... Chilli (not all at 
once) has convinced me that dogs will crap in any direction but... [DOC] [TLE] Circling Dog Habit Before Sleeping? | Yahoo Answers [PAR] Sep 7, 2009 ... ... to lay down. Presumably this was to flatten the grass during their evolutionary 
phase. So do all dogs perform this action in the same direction (clockwise or anti-
clockwise)? ... Circling before lying down is a dogs defensive behavior. Dogs in 
the ... it goes back to their wolf ancestors instincts. Before dogs... [DOC] [TLE] Weird & Wacky Dog Behaviors  Explained!  The Dogington Post [PAR] Oct 13, 2016 ... It turns out, your dog has a reason for those weird behaviors! ... Circling in a spot 
before laying down is one such leftover ancestral oddity. ... By flattening out 
leaves, grass, and stems, and feeling the area with their ... as an involuntary 
muscle movement while they're searching for familiar words or phrases. [DOC] [TLE] Behavior and Behavioral Needs - Poultry Science [PAR] Department of Animal and Poultry Science and Col. K. L. Campbell ... evidence 
that domestic fowl do have certain behavioral needs (e.g. ... aggression (
Hughes, 1979) in the hour before they lay an egg. ... in the wild, this behavior 
functions to flatten tall grasses ... the sleeping routine and is now caused entirely 
by internal. [DOC] [TLE] No. - Guide Dogs [PAR] The domestic dog still displays many of ... or long grass. The reason is likely to ... 
Wild dogs carry their food back to the family ... of predatory animals. ... This refers 
to the circling action carried out by some dogs before lying down and is 
instinctive behaviour intended to flatten the ... to see movement and distance 
especially. [DOC] [TLE] Earthrise Repair Shop | Site, Performance, and Environmental Change [PAR] Oct 25, 2011 ... In late May of this year, when its grasses mostly had grown to almost a foot ... So 
before entering the never-ending path, most visitors were asked ... to spending 
time there together  moving, walking, talking, eating, sleeping, moving. two ... 
into a movement routine/dance; Baz recalled last year's raking of the... [DOC] [TLE] Issue 4 | zoomorphic [PAR] Wildlife ecologist Aldo Leopold circled such questions and landed on a term for 
.... Black-crowned will do, its evocative as species names go, but better would be 
.... of grazed-down grasses, and the bleached gnarled bodies of sheoaks, laying 
... Over the last 200 years or so, humans (and the domestic animals we nurture)... [DOC] [TLE] Some Open Issues in Artificial Lif - Computer and Information Science [PAR] We are interested in (a) how artificial neural networks (ANNs) support animal ... 
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Question: This domestic animal's circling movement before lying down goes back to a grass-flattening behavior
Answer: Dog