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    Dog

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


    "Doggy" and "Pooch" redirect here. For
    other uses, see Dog
    (disambiguation), Doggy
    (disambiguation), and Pooch
    (disambiguation).

    Dog

    Temporal range: 0.0142–0 Ma

    PreꞒ

    Pg
    Conservation status

    N
    Domesticated
    ↓

    Late Pleistocene to present[1]


    Scientific classification

    Domain: Eukaryota

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Mammalia
    size, and color. They perform many
    Order: Carnivora roles for humans, such
    as hunting, herding, pulling
    loads, protection, assisting police and
    Family: Canidae
    the military, companionship, therapy,
    and aiding disabled people. Over the
    Genus: Canis millennia, dogs became uniquely
    adapted to human behavior, and
    the human–canine bond has been a
    Species: C. familiaris
    topic of frequent study.[13] This influence
    on human society has given them
    Binomial name the sobriquet of "man's best friend".[14]

    Canis familiaris Taxonomy


    Further information: Canis lupus dingo
    Linnaeus, 1758[2] § Taxonomic debate – the domestic
    dog, dingo, and New Guinea singing
    Synonyms[3] dog
    In 1758, the Swedish botanist and
    show zoologist Carl Linnaeus published in
    his Systema Naturae, the two-word
    List naming of species (binomial
    nomenclature). Canis is the Latin word
    The dog (Canis familiaris[4][5] or Canis meaning "dog",[15] and under this genus,
    lupus familiaris[5]) is he listed the domestic dog, the wolf, and
    a domesticated descendant of the wolf. the golden jackal. He classified the
    Also called the domestic dog, it domestic dog as Canis familiaris and, on
    is derived from extinct Pleistocene the next page, classified the grey wolf
    wolves,[6][7] and the modern wolf is the as Canis lupus.[2] Linnaeus considered
    dog's nearest living relative.[8] The dog the dog to be a separate species from
    was the first species to be the wolf because of its upturning tail
    domesticated[9][8] by humans. Hunter- (cauda recurvata), which is not found in
    gatherers did this, over 15,000 years any other canid.[16]
    ago in Germany,[7] which was before the
    development of agriculture.[1] Due to their In 1999, a study of mitochondrial
    long association with humans, dogs DNA (mtDNA) indicated that the
    have expanded to a large number of domestic dog may have originated from
    domestic individuals[10] and gained the the grey wolf, with the dingo and New
    ability to thrive on a starch-rich diet that Guinea singing dog breeds having
    would be inadequate for other canids.[11] developed at a time when human
    communities were more isolated from
    The dog has been selectively bred over each other.[17] In the third edition
    millennia for various behaviors, sensory of Mammal Species of the
    capabilities, and physical attributes. World published in 2005,
    [12]
    Dog breeds vary widely in shape, the mammalogist W. Christopher
    Wozencraft listed under the wolf Canis
    lupus its wild subspecies and proposed
    two additional subspecies, which formed
    the domestic dog clade: familiaris, as
    named by Linnaeus in 1758
    and, dingo named by Meyer in 1793.
    Wozencraft included hallstromi (the New
    Guinea singing dog) as another name
    (junior synonym) for the dingo.
    Wozencraft referred to the mtDNA study
    as one of the guides informing his
    decision.[3] Mammalogists have noted
    the inclusion
    of familiaris and dingo together under
    the "domestic dog" clade[18] with some
    debating it.[19]

    In 2019, a workshop hosted by


    the IUCN/Species Survival
    Commission's Canid Specialist Group
    considered the dingo and the New
    Guinea singing dog to be feral Canis
    familiaris and therefore did not assess
    them for the IUCN Red List of
    Threatened Species.[4]

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