By Juliet Clutton-Brock
ISBN-10: 0756606780
ISBN-13: 9780756606787
New glance! Relaunched with new jackets and eight pages of recent textual content! here's a fantastic and informative advisor to the interesting global of the whole puppy kin. awesome real-life photos of canines, wolves, jackals and foxes provide a different "eyewitness" view of the normal background and evolution of the puppy family members, highlighting the numerous ways that they've got helped humans all through background. See the oldest-known is still of a doggy, an grand tree-climbing fox, a unprecedented golden jackal, a howling wolf, how a puppy swims, a fox with bat ears, and a husky in sled harness. examine why canines and wolves hunt in packs, how canine "talk" with ears and tails, the fundamentals of taking care of a puppy puppy, and the way canine have been as soon as used to smell out brownies. observe how designated breeds of puppy have constructed, the hierarchy of the wolf pack, how canine have been in particular taught to assist people, why a hyena isn't a puppy, which individuals of the puppy relatives are threatened with extinction, and lots more and plenty, even more!
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For example, at one time French hunters sent poodles to retrieve ducks; bulldogs were once bred for baiting bulls (pp. 46–47); and Dalmatians were used for herding cattle and hunting game. This group also includes national dogs from various countries – the Boston terrier from the United States, the bulldog from Britain, and the poodle from France. BAT-EARED BULLDOG In the old days French bulldogs were used for baiting donkeys (pp. 46–47). Today they are smaller and live more peaceful lives, but it is still a tough breed and a good guard dog.
A WHITER SHADE OF PALE The pale fox lives in grasslands at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert in Africa. Like the fennec, it is a small, pale‑colored fox. Long bushy tail can be curled around the body to keep it warm during cold desert nights Rüppell’s sand fox AFTER A MEAL Thick ruff of very fine fur around the neck SWIFTLY, SWIFTLY The kit, or swift, fox is the only desert fox in North America. S. and Mexico. It used to be much more widespread until poisoned bait, meant for wolves and coyotes, also killed many kit foxes.
The Dalmatian’s coat is always pure white with distinctive black or brown (liver) spots SPOTTED DOG PRETTY AS A PICTURE Poodles were first bred as sporting dogs (pp. 50–51), probably in Germany, but their intelligence and attractive appearance soon led to their chief role of much-loved house dog. An early form of the pet poodle as it was in the 1700s is shown in this painting by Jean Jacques Bachelier (1724–1806). There are several legends about the origin of Dalmatians. Some people believe that these dogs came from India with gypsies who settled in Dalmatia, now Yugoslavia; others think that the breed originated in Italy.
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