Dug

The domestic dug (Canis lupus familiaris or Canis familiaris) is a usually furry, carnivorous canid carnivoran mammal.  The dug, thit is sib tae the wouf, wis the first domesticatit beastNikolai D. Ovodov, Susan J. Crockford, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Thomas F. G. Higham, Gregory W. L. Hodgins, Johannes van der Plicht. (2011). A 33,000-Year-Old Incipient Dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the Earliest Domestication Disrupted by the Last Glacial Maximum. Published: 28 July, 2011DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022821. Page 1 online here OCT14Greger Larson, Elinor K. Karlsson, Angela Perri, Matthew T. Webster, Simon Y. W. Ho, Joris Peters, Peter W. Stahl, Philip J. Piper, Frode Lingaas, Merete Fredholm, Kenine E. Comstock, Jaime F. Modiano, Claude Schelling, Alexander I. Agoulnik, Peter A. Leegwater, Keith Dobney, Jean-Denis Vignes, Carles Vilàt, Leif Anderssond, and Kerstin Lindblad-Toh; Edited by Joachim Burger. (2012). Rethinking dog domestication by integrating genetics, archeology, and biogeography. vol. 109 no. 23 > Greger Larson,  8878–8883, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1203005109. Page 1 online here OCT14  an haes been widely kept as a wirkin, huntin, an pet companion. It is estimatit thare are atween 700 million an ane billion domestic dugs, makin them the maist abundant member o order Carnivora.

Their lang association wi humans haes led dugs tae be uniquely attuned tae human behaviour an thay are able tae thrive on a stairch-rich diet that wad be inadequate for ither canid species. New resairch seems tae shaw that dugs hae mutations tae equivalent genetic regions in humans whaur chynges are kent tae trigger heich sociability an somewhit reduced intelligence. Dugs vary widely in shape, size an colours.Why are different breeds of dogs all considered the same species? - Scientific American .  Nikhil Swaminathan. Accessed on 28 August 2016. Dugs perform mony roles for fowk, sic as huntin, herdin, pullin laids, pertection, assistin polis an militar, companionship an, mair recently, aidin handicapped individuals an therapeutic roles. This influence on human society haes gien them the sobriquet "man's best friend".

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Category:Dugs
Category:Woufs
Category:Cosmopolitan vertebrates
Category:Scaffengers
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Category:Mammals descrived in 1758
Category:Taxa named bi Carl Linnaeus