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Dog, a non-standard hand in the card game poker; Dog, in some British spelling alphabets, the letter "D" Dog in business, a stock-keeping unit in a growth-share matrix with low market share and poor prospects; Dog soldiers, or Dog Men (Cheyenne: Hotamétaneo'o), one of six Cheyenne military societies; Dog Latin, English made to resemble Latin
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In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
10: Leo. People who name their dog Leo are either huge DiCaprio or Tolstoy fans. 9: Ollie. The Bump also tells me that Ollie is a gender-neutral Latin name means "olive tree," which is a symbol of ...
Canine terminology in this article refers only to dog terminology, specialized terms describing the characteristics of various external parts of the domestic dog, as well as terms for structure, movement, and temperament. This terminology is not typically used for any of the wild species or subspecies of wild wolves, foxes, coyotes, dholes ...
The 18-month-old dog, who's been learning how to "speak" from her owner, already knows 29 different words — and she's starting to form complete sentences, PEOPLE reported.
[124] [125] While male-parent dogs can show more disinterested behaviour toward their own puppies, [126] most can play with the young pups as they would with other dogs or humans. [127] A female dog may abandon or attack her puppies or her male partner dog if she is stressed or in pain. [128]
In other words, the male's ability to collect large shells depends on his size. The larger the male, the larger the shells he is able to collect. This then allows for females to be larger in his brooding nest which makes the difference between the sizes of the sexes less substantial.