11/23/2020
3 Amazing Facts About Dogs 🐕🐕
A hound, an Austrian cattle dog, a corgi ...
They look pretty different, but they’re
all examples of human’s very first pets - dogs!
Even if you have a dog of your own, I bet
you don’t know some of these amazing things
about our furry best friends.
For example!
Did you know that all dogs are related to
wolves?
That's right!
This is related to this.
Remember how I said dogs were human’s first
pets?
Well, about 15,000 years ago, humans lived
alongside wolves.
And in time, some of these wolves became domesticated,
meaning that they changed from being wild,
to be able to live and even work closely
with humans.
So, over thousands of years, some of those
wolves became the domesticated dogs we know
and love!
Wild wolves still live in many places in the
world today.
But there are also more than 400 different
breeds of dogs!
And all of the wolves and dogs on Earth are
thought to have descended from the same animal: a predator that roamed our planet millions of years ago.
Scientists called it Eucyon Davis, and it
looked a lot like today’s wolves, with one
the major difference: It was probably a lot bigger.
So if all wolves and dogs descended from this
early predator, that means wolves and dogs
are related!
Dogs are also related to other animals that
look a lot like them -- including foxes, jackals,
and coyotes.
Together with wolves, these meat-eating mammals
are called canines.
That’s one big furry family!
Now, another cool thing about dogs?
They’re super-smellers!
Their sensitive noses have 40 times more cells
in them for smelling than ours do -- plus they have the ability to wiggle their noses
in ways that we can’t!
And that’s not just a neat trick—by wiggling
each nostril separately, dogs can figure out
which direction a smell is coming from.
So, when they’re born, puppies can’t hear
or see anything, but they quickly learn to
find their mom—and other important things
in the world around them—just by using their
sense of smell.
Dogs also use their smelling skills when they
meet new dog friends.
Instead of shaking paws or barking to say
hello, dogs sniff each other’s butts!
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