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Dog

The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of wolves. Also called the domestic dog, it was selectively bred during the Late Pleistocene by hunter-gatherers. Dogs and the modern gray wolf share a common ancestor. Dogs were the first species to be domesticated over 14,000 years ago, before the development of…

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related to Dogs as food · 38
Dog → Africa, An, Asia, Buddhism, Central Asia, China, Columbian Mexico, Consumption, East Asia, East Asian, Eating, Europe, For, Han Chinese, Humans, In, In Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Iran
related to Bibliography · 37
Dog → Australia, Bath, Behavior, Behaviour, Boitani, Chicago, Chicago Press, Collins Dictionary, Columbia University Press, Conservation, CSIRO Publishing, Cunliffe, DK Publishing, Dogs, Ecology, Evolutionary History, Fogle, Galahad Books, Hamilton, HarperCollins
related to Cultural importance · 34
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related to Range · 26
Dog → Andamanese, As, Australia, Bounty, Caroline Islands, Chatham Islands, Cook Islands, Easter Island, Fais Island, French Polynesia, Fuegian, Gilbert Islands, Mangaia, Mariana Islands, Marquesas, Marshall Islands, MyanmarThe Fuegians, New Caledonia, Nukuoro, Pacific
related to Taxonomy · 25
Dog → Bonn, Canidae, Canis, Carl Linnaeus, Christopher Wozencraft, DNA, Dogs, Genetic, He, In, Latin, Linnaeus, Mammal Species, Meyer, New Guinea, Oberkassel, Oceania, Similarly, Swedish, Systema Naturae
related to Health risks · 14
Dog → Africa, Asia, In, It, Rabies, Sharp, Some, The, They, Toxocara, United States, Untreated, WHO, World Health Organization
related to Breeds · 13
Dog → An, As, Dogs, European, Morphological, Most, Present-day, Since, The, Their, There, These, Victorian
related to Domestication · 13
Dog → American, Bonn-Oberkassel, Contextual, Dated, DNA, Earlier, Eurasian, Germany, Late Pleistocene, Paleolithic, Some, The, This
related to External links · 13
Dog → Ancient World, Archived, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Canis, Cynologique Internationale, December, EnsemblGenome, FCI, NCBI, NCBIData, UCSC Genome BrowserData, Wayback Machine, World Canine OrganisationDogs
related to Behavior · 12
Dog → Acute, Behavioral, Compared, Dogs, In, Most, Police, PTSD, These, They, Traits, Williams-Beuren

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Dogis amost popular pet in the United States0.90text
Dogis adomestic animal that likely travelled a commensal pathway into domestication0.90text
Dogis amost widely abundant large carnivoran living in the human environment0.90text
Dogis aintegral partner0.90text
Dogis acommon and accepted practice0.90text
terriersinstance ofselective breeding since domestication has seen the dog's skeleton increase in size for larger types such as mastiffs and miniaturised for smaller types0.80text
the American Veterinary Medical Associationinstance ofTail docking is opposed by many veterinary and animal welfare organisations0.80text
the British Veterinary Associationinstance ofTail docking is opposed by many veterinary and animal welfare organisations0.80text
diarrhoeainstance ofgastrointestinal disease0.80text
gastric dilatation volvulusinstance ofgastrointestinal disease0.80text
the UKinstance ofin some developed countries0.80text
rabies is absent from dogsinstance ofin some developed countries0.80text

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