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  • the Carnivora into the suborders Caniformia (dog-like) and Feliformia (cat ... and walruses evolved from a bear-like or dog-like ancestor, phocid seals ...
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  • Carnivora tribe vulpini, characterized by a dog-like appearance with a bushy ... that it is made by a vixen in heat summoning dog-foxes. Contrary to common ...
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  • Otariids are further distinguished by a more dog-like head, sharp, well-developed canines, and the aforementioned visible external pinnae. Their ...
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  • Hedgehog is the common name for any of the small spiny, mammals comprising the subfamily Erinaceinae of the Erinaceidae family, characterized ...
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  • of nature. In the black-tailed prairie dog, the colonies ("towns ... and warning call, which sounds similar to a dog's bark. The name prairie ...
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  • particular material thing, such as an actual dog, is subject to change; for ... That is, what distinguished one dog from another was its matter ...
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  • squirrels such as the chipmunk and prairie dog. Sciurids, like all rodents ... The similarly-sized but more social prairie dog is not classified in the genus ...
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  • his novellas, like Fatal Eggs and Heart of a Dog, and in his greatest work ... notably The Fatal Eggs (1924) and the Heart of a Dog (1925). ...
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  • Traditionally it was made with the skin of a dog or cat, but today synthetic ... of the strings. The skin is usually from a dog or cat, but in the past a ...
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  • described as an "Australian wild dog," the dingo is not restricted ... from the closely related domestic dog. In Australia, as a result ...
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  • Echidna, also known as spiny anteater, is any of the egg-laying mammals comprising the Tachyglossidae family of the order Monotremata (monotremes ...
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  • orders: Feliformia (cat-like) and Caniformia (dog-like). The weasel family, Mustelidae, belongs to the subgroup Caniformia, which includes such major ...
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  • Feliformia (cat-like) and Caniformia (dog-like). Mustelide is placed ... on another keystone species, the prairie dog. A family of four ferrets ...
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  • The dog (Canis lupus familiaris or Canis familiaris) is usually considered ... The word "dog" also is used to refer to some other members ...
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  • Japan, most notably Drunken Angel and Stray Dog. However, it was a period ... borrows from American Westerns, and Stray Dog was inspired by the detective ...
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  • The two comedians worked together briefly in 1919, on The Lucky Dog ... The first film encounter of the two comedians took place in The Lucky ...
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  • *Dog = dog and bone = telephone *Jam = Jam jar = Car *China = China ... * Lillo, Antonio. "From Alsatian Dog to Wooden Shoe: Linguistic ...
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  • had adopted a farming economy. Unlike the dog, which also hunts and kills ... notice the cat's presence. In contrast, dog's odor is an advantage ...
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  • that resembles a small wolf or medium-sized dog and is characterized by a ... canids, is divided into the "true dog" (or canines) of the ...
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  • Bradypodidae are about the size of a small dog and are characterized by three ... Three-toed sloths are about the size of a small dog, with the head ...
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  • him fools that follow the footsteps of a blind dog. His ambassadorship ended in 1941 after the German invasion of Yugoslavia. During World War II ...
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  • [[Image:Infrared_dog.jpg|thumb|right|332px|Image of a small dog taken in mid-infrared ("thermal") light (false color).]] ...
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  • of Carnivora is Caniformia, the "dog-like" carnivores, such ... Feliformia (cat-like) and Caniformia (dog-like), the latter of which ...
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  • *2005: Monolog psa zaplątanego w dzieje ("Monologue of a Dog ... on Her Latest Book, Monologue of a Dog by [http://moondance.org/2006/winte ...
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  • the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." The catch phrase "back ... Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker. Black Dog & Levinthal. ISBN 1579123228 ...
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  • The lower part of the body is like that of a dog, the upper part is like a ... ;Cerberus: Cerberus is a multi-headed (usually three-headed) dog. ...
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  • example Echinococcus granulosus normally passes to a dog through an intermediate host, such as a goat or sheep. But the parasite, instead of passing ...
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  • one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy ... * Schulz had a dog when he was a boy. Unlike Snoopy, it was a pointer ...
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  • The colon is the longest portion of the large intestine of vertebrates; in mammals, this section of the gastrointestinal tract extends from the ...
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  • his white hat, rough white coat, and huge white dog earned for him the sobriquet of the “White Bear,” and he outraged the conventions of Oxford ...
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  • "The Hellhound of the Qur'an: A Dog at the Gate of the Underworld ... * Archer, George. "The Hellhound of the Qur'an: A Dog at ...
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  • of consciousness" tale by Flush, a dog; non-fiction in the sense of telling the story of the owner of the dog, Elizabeth Barret Browning) ...
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  • men practiced building igloos and driving dog sled teams. He realized that ... an excellent surface for the use of ski and dog sleds, Amundsen's primary ...
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  • *Mice are small and quite fragile (not as easy to handle as a dog or a cat) *Mice are nocturnal (active at night) *Mice have frequent eye infections ...
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  • Cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made. The word cocoa also is used to refer to ...
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  • *The White Dog *Hide and Seek *The Cave *The Old House *The Uniter of Souls ... “The Invoker of the Beast,” “The White Dog,” “Light and Shadows,” ...
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  • Rabbit is the common name for small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, characterized by long ears and legs, large hind ...
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  • well with other cats and even with the family dog, but, in most cases, the male will be more easy-going than the female. Like many cats, they ...
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  • animals, most famously for a Newfoundland dog named Boatswain; when Boatswain ... :: "Boatswain," a Dog :: Who was born at Newfoundland, ...
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  • backpacking. Wintertime recreation includes dog-sledding, cross-country skiing ... * Sled Dog Demonstrations. The park service keeps sled dogs for use ...
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  • 1960s culminated when he devised Rowlf the Dog, a piano-playing anthropomorphic ... Kermit the Frog, The Swedish Chef, Rowlf the Dog, Mahna Mahna, The Muppet Newscaster ...
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  • his constant childhood companion was a dog called "Little Duke" went anywhere without his Airedale terrier dog, who was named “Little Duke ...
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  • *To Kachalov's Dog (1925) *Goodbye, My Friend, Goodbye (1925) (His farewell poem) {| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing ...
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  • with the American bison is the black-tailed prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus, a small rodent. Prairie dogs eat the same grass as the bison and live in ...
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  • * Cynopterus (dog-faced fruit bats or short-nosed fruit bats) * Megaerops * Ptenochirus (musky fruit bats) * Dyacopterus (Dayak fruit bats) ...
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  • famous couplet, “The cat, the rat and Lovel our dog, rule all England under the hog.” The apparently innocent rhyme was, in fact, referring to King ...
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  • by their Cheyenne allies. Others called them "dog-eaters."Carl Waldman, Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes (New York, NY: Checkmark Books ...
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  • *"The Lady with the Dog" (1899) *"At Christmas" (1899) *"In the Ravine" (1900) *"The Bishop" (1902) ...
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  • Infraclass: Marsupialia color = pink | plural_taxon = Orders *Didelphimorphia *Paucituberculata *Microbiotheria *Dasyuromorphia *Peramelemorphia ...
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  • *Stray Dog Blues—2006 *Juke—2005 *1947-1953—2004 *Blues Twin Pack—2002 *Live In The Windy City—2000 *His Best—1997 *Blues With A Feeling: ...
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  • *Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog ISBN 0811202070 *Under Milk Wood ISBN 0140188886 *Quite Early One Morning (posthumous) ISBN 0811202089 ...
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  • [[Image:Canis - VTdJ.JPG|right|thumb|A dog's fur usually comprises both longer, stiffer, guard hairs—which can be straight, wiry, or wavy ...
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  • Dogs can hear sound at higher frequencies than humans can. A dog whistle exploits this by emitting a high frequency sound to call to a dog. Many ...
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  • JPG|thumb|right|240px|Spearfisherman hunting dog-tooth tuna in the Ryu-Kyu Islands]] ... grouper) and the Great Barrier Reef (wahoo, dog-tooth tuna). FADS are targeted ...
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  • was small, being no larger than that of a dog. A well preserved Stegosaurus braincase allowed Othniel Charles Marsh to obtain, in the 1880s, ...
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  • is based around the reindeer and the Samoyed dog. The Nentsy bred dogs to help herd the reindeer and pull sleds across the snow. Later, European ...
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  • garde film Un chien andalou ("An Andalusian Dog," 1929), which García Lorca interpreted, perhaps erroneously, as a vicious attack on him ...
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  • * Oil of Dog * One Kind of Officer * One of Twins * One Officer, One Man * One Summer Night * Parker Adderson, Philosopher * Perry Chumly's ...
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  • *The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. *Most monkeys are arboreal creatures that inhabit tropical or subtropical areas. *That's a ...
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  • The Mauritius Dodo (Raphus cucullatus, called Didus ineptus by Linnaeus), more commonly just Dodo, was a meter-high, flightless bird native only ...
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  • | Dog || 78 | Chicken || 78 |- | Carp || 104 | Butterflies || 380 |} {| class="wikitable" style="float:right; margin:1em 0 1em 1em" ...
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  • worked briefly as a bank officer and also as a dog salesman, but preferred the liberated profession of a writer and journalist. In 1906 he joined ...
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  • Reflection on Dr Charlton's Feeling a Dog's Pulse at Gresham College * 1675--Some Considerations about the Reconcileableness of Reason ...
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  • roams by day about the open plain, and fears neither dog nor man. If a dog is urged to the attack, its courage is instantly checked by a few drops of ...
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  • sound of a bell before placing food in front of a dog, Pavlov was able to create a conditioned response in the dog where the dog would salivate at ...
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  • Awards: The Complete Unofficial History. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2011. ISBN 978-1579128784 * Pond, Steve. The Big Show: High Times ...
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  • him, but still treats him well. His faithful dog, Argos, is the first to recognize him. Aged and decrepit, the dog does its best to wag its tail ...
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  • The bloodhound is thought to have the keenest sense of smell of any dog. It was bred for the specific purpose of tracking human beings, and can ...
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  • with his painting, Self-Portrait with Black Dog. His painting was selected ... Image:Selbstbildnis mit schwarzem Hund.jpg|Self portrait with black ...
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  • * Walking the Dog (1937), a humorous piece for orchestra featuring the clarinet. It was originally a musical sequence from the 1937 film Shall ...
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  • birth. I do not mind if I am a bird or a swine, a dog or a cat, but my conditions are that in each of these lives, I must see Pandharpur and serve ...
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  • short films featuring Benchley, How to Train a Dog, a spoof of dog-training techniques, and How to Behave, which lampooned etiquette norms. How to ...
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  • * 1951 The Under Dog and Other Stories (nine short stories) * 1960 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (six short stories) * 1961 Double Sin ...
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  • Under the Sea (in CinemaScope, 1954), The Shaggy Dog (1959), and The Parent Trap (1961). Although movies were seen to be in competition with television ...
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  • fantasy elements and casting his car and his own dog as heroes. Because of the indeterminacy of their genre affiliation, these last Mirbeau stories show ...
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  • adult wolverine is about the size of a medium dog, with a length usually ranging from 65 to 87 centimeters (25 to 34 inches), a tail of 17 to 26 cm ...
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  • Crete ( Κρήτη , el|Kríti ; Ancient Greek: grc|Κρήτη , Krḗtē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth-largest ...
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  • A word that consists of a single syllable (like English dog) is called ... words into phonological words, for example hot dog /ˈhɒt‿dɒɡ/ ...
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  • English gentlemen I lived in misery, like a poor dog that had strayed among a pack of wolves." In 1984, the Soseki Museum in London was opened by ...
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  • Roger Fry, Art and Life. New York, New York: Black Dog Books. 1999. ISBN 0520041267 * Woolf, Virginia. Roger Fry. London, England: Vintage (RAND ...
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  • National films include the comedy shorts: A Dog's Life (1918), and Pay ... *63. A Dog's Life (Apr 14) *64. The Bond (Sep 29) *65. Shoulder ...
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  • Eastern Africa is a region of sub–Saharan Africa containing the easternmost region of the continent, composed of two distinct regions: ...
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  • un chien) or "Genuine Flabby Preludes (for a dog)"), the Vieux sequins et vieilles cuirasses or "Old Sequins and Old Breastplates" ...
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  • *Dog hybrids are crosses between different breeds and are often bred selectively. * Hybrid Iguana is single cross hybrid, result of natural inbreeding ...
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  • Old Kentucky Home" (1853), "Old Dog Tray" (1853), "Hard ... Old Dog Tray (1853) Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair (1854) ...
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  • included bison, elk, deer, pronghorn antelope, and dog.Robert J. Hoard and William E. Banks, Kansas Archaeology (University Press of Kansas, 2006, ISBN ...
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  • the same speed increase in, say, a horse, dog, or human). For kangaroos ... introduction of the dingo (a type of wild dog in Australia) about 5,000 ...
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  • but zoologists suggest a bobcat, coyote, or dog is more likely to kill domestic cats and chickens. Fishers have also been recorded to prey on ...
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  • weak, inferior girl; and Timmy the dog. By the late 1940s, Blyton was at the height of her dominance of popular fiction, continuing to produce ...
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  • shown in another scene in Viridiana where a dog is being forced to run along ... **An Andalusian Dog * Las Hurdes (1933) Documentary **Land Without Bread ...
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  • cakes). Dietary taboos prohibit the consumption of dog, cat or snake meat, and those who observe the folk religion known as Miluotuo do not eat the ...
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  • example Echinococcus granulosus normally passes to a dog through an intermediate host, such as a goat or sheep. But the parasite, instead of passing ...
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  • Rats are various medium sized rodents, similar in appearance to mice, but larger. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the ...
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  • * Our Friend the Dog * Pelleas and Melisande * La sagesse et la destinee (French) * The Unknown Guest * Wisdom and Destiny * The Wrack of the Storm ...
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  • heads symbolising age and the triple-headed beast (dog, lion, wolf) standing for prudence.]] In classical literature a few of the best known allegories ...
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  • analysis and haplotype structure of the domestic dog.] Nature 438(7069): 803–19. Retrieved September 18, 2020. * Loots, G., R. Locksley, C. ...
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  • :A dog is barking somewhere down the lane, :And chickens sit atop the mulberry tree. :The mundane world has no place in my home, :My modest rooms ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:WOTeb FCEN no trespassing.jpg|thumb|200px|A sign warning against trespassing.]] ...
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  • developed by imitating the movements of a dog, and were performed as entertainment ... resembling those of a Pekingese or Fu Dog. Acrobatics are very common ...
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  • [[image:EB White and his dog Minnie.png|thumb|250px]] Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899, Mount Vernon, NY – October 1, 1985, North Brooklin ...
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