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English: Skeleton of a dog: A – Cervical or Neck Bones (7 in number). B – Dorsal or Thoracic Bones (13 in number, each bearing a rib). C – Lumbar Bones (7 in number).D – Sacral Bones (3 in number). E – Caudal or Tail Bones (20 to 23 in number). 1 – Cranium, or Skull. 2 – Maxilla. 3 – Mandible, or Lower jaw . 4 – Atlas. 5 – Axis.
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Dogs of various types, and occasionally of specific breeds, occur as charges and supporters in many coats of arms, and often symbolise courage, vigilance, loyalty, and fidelity. [19] Three encaustic tiles dating from the 15th century feature a white hound, the Talbot crest and the inscription "Sir John Talbot" (the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury). Part ...
Dogs have ear mobility that allows them to rapidly pinpoint the exact location of a sound. Eighteen or more muscles can tilt, rotate, raise, or lower a dog's ear. A dog can identify a sound's location much faster than a human can, as well as hear sounds at four times the distance. [41] Dogs can lose their hearing from age or an ear infection. [42]
The Clarus icon became one of the giant pieces of pixel art in the Icon Garden in the front yard of the Apple Campus at 1 Infinite Loop; the Icon Garden has since been removed. [2] Apple's Developer CD Series of the 1980s features a dogcow logo on the discs. [7]
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 extinct population of wolves during the Late Pleistocene by hunter-gatherers.
Saints Ahrakas and Augani (icon XVIII c.) There is a description of two saints Ahrakas and Augani with a dog's head from the legend about the life of the Coptic saint Mercurius Abu-Sayfain, whom they faithfully served. According to the Coptic legend, preserved in an Arabic translation, the two "cynophali devoured the grandfather of St ...
ASCII art of a fish. ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII).