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The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the gray wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it was selectively bred from an ...
Dogs appear to have been dispersed across Eurasia and into the Americas without any major human population movement being involved, which remains a mystery. Past studies have suggested the dog's place of origin but these studies were based upon today's patterns of genomic diversity or possible links to modern wolf populations.
King Charles Spaniels, photographed in 1915, one of the smaller breeds, are primarily lap dogs. The origin of the word spaniel is described by the Oxford English Dictionary as coming from the Old French word espaigneul which meant "Spanish (dog)"; this in turn originated from the Latin Hispaniolus which simply means "Spanish". [2]
The word cynocephaly is taken (through Latin) from the Greek word κυνοκέφαλοι kynokephaloi, plural of the word κυνοκέφαλος, [4] from kyno– (combining form of κύων kyōn) meaning "dog" and κεφαλή kephalē meaning "head". The same "dog" root is found in the name Cynomorpha ("dog-shaped") for a sub-group of the ...
Its origin does not appear to have any common root with the modern word "grey" [66] for color, and indeed the Greyhound is seen with a wide variety of coat colors. The lighter colors, patch-like markings and white appeared in the breed that was once ordinarily grey in color. [citation needed] The Greyhound is the only dog mentioned by name in ...
A recent study has shed light on the cognitive abilities of dogs, demonstrating that they can associate specific words with objects. Conducted at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, this ...
Dogs are able to understand that some words refer to objects in a way that is similar to humans, a small study of canine brain waves has found, offering insight into the way the minds of man's ...
The new study in the journal Current Biology titled “Neural evidence for referential understanding of object words in dogs ” the researchers wanted to investigate dogs’ understanding of ...