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Animal Group Names
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Lion (panthera leo)
Deadliest Animals Quiz
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Wild Words from the Animal Kingdom Vocabulary Quiz
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6 Domestic Animals and Their Wild Ancestors
Working German Shepherd dog sniffing a suspecting package for drugs or explosives.
Working Like a Dog: 7 Animals with Jobs
Bernese mountain dog laying on grass.
Are Dogs Really Color-Blind?
Ruminant. Deer. Red deer. Cervus elaphus. Buck. Stag. Antlers.
9 of the World’s Deadliest Mammals
animal. Amphibian. Frog. Anura. Ranidae. Frog in grass.
Abundant Animals: The Most Numerous Organisms in the World
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Also Known As Canis lupus familiaris

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Labradoodle
The sizes of dogs
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German Shorthaired Pointer
Stocky and strong
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The “badger dog”
A Standard Poodle
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Are dogs really colorblind?
Observe a study on anxiety in dogs
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Dorothy Leib Harrison Wood Eustis
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American dog breeder and trainer
George H. Whipple
George H. Whipple
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Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
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