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Native American dogs. Canadian Eskimo Dog. Native American dogs, or Pre-Columbian dogs, were dogs living with people indigenous to the Americas. Arriving about 10,000 years ago alongside Paleo-Indians, today they make up a fraction of dog breeds that range from the Alaskan Malamute to the Peruvian Hairless Dog. [1]
Tamaskan are large, athletic dogs, and slightly taller than German Shepherds. With regard to build, they are larger than typical sled dogs but smaller than the Alaskan Malamute. A black Tamaskan puppy. On average, Tamaskan adults measure around 24-28 inches (60–70 cm) tall at the shoulder and typically weigh between 55-88 pounds (25–40 kg ...
NRHP reference No. 70000490 [ 1 ] Added to NRHP. November 10, 1970. Shrum Mound is a Native American burial mound in Campbell Memorial Park in Columbus, Ohio. [ 2 ] The mound was created around 2,000 years ago by the Pre-Columbian Native American Adena culture. [ 2 ] The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
Coywolf. Captive-bred F 1 gray wolf × coyote hybrids, Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minnesota. A coywolf is a canid hybrid descended from coyotes (Canis latrans), eastern wolves (Canis lycaon), gray wolves (Canis lupus), and dogs (Canis familiaris). All of these species are members of the genus Canis with 78 chromosomes; they ...
Canis vigilis Merriam, 1897. Lyciscus cagottis Hamilton-Smith, 1839. The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf, is a species of canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the gray wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf.
The wolf (Canis lupus; [ b ]pl.: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, including the dog and dingo, though gray wolves, as popularly understood, only comprise naturally-occurring wild subspecies.
Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology. The wolf is a common motif in the foundational mythologies and cosmologies of peoples throughout Eurasia and North America (corresponding to the historical extent of the habitat of the gray wolf), and also plays a role in ancient European cultures. The modern trope of the Big Bad Wolf arises from ...
Dog (domestic dog) The Catahoula Leopard Dog is an American dog breed named after Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. It became the state dog of Louisiana in 1979. It is recognized by the United Kennel Club under the name Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dog, while the American Kennel Club Foundation Stock Service calls it Catahoula Leopard Dog.