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- noun Plural form of
canid .
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As a member of the Canidae family—all of whose members are called canids—the domestic dog is distantly related to coyotes and jackals, dingoes and dholes, foxes and wild dogs.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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As a member of the Canidae family—all of whose members are called canids—the domestic dog is distantly related to coyotes and jackals, dingoes and dholes, foxes and wild dogs.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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One of these "canids" will offer to play, by means of a particular way of crouching down.
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One of these "canids" will offer to play, by means of a particular way of crouching down.
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One of these "canids" will offer to play, by means of a particular way of crouching down.
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There are flukes in certain molluscs from San Francisco to Alaska that contain a bacterium that is toxic to canids.
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There are flukes in certain molluscs from San Francisco to Alaska that contain a bacterium that is toxic to canids.
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By studying the details of social play in domestic dogs and wild canids (members of the dog family) we may learn a lot about the evolution of human empathy and fairness and discover behaviors that hint at the roots of human morality.
Marc Bekoff: 'The Empathic Civilization': Why Animals Deserve Our Empathy Too 2010
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When canids and other animals play they use actions such as vigorous biting, mounting and body slamming that could be easily misinterpreted, so it is important for them to state clearly what they want and expect.
Marc Bekoff: 'The Empathic Civilization': Why Animals Deserve Our Empathy Too 2010
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This moral intelligence, so evident in both wild canids and in domesticated dogs, probably closely resembles that of our early human ancestors.
Marc Bekoff: 'The Empathic Civilization': Why Animals Deserve Our Empathy Too 2010
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