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Wysłany: Śro 5:29, 23 Mar 2011 Temat postu: GENERAL HISTORY OF DOGS |
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GENERAL HISTORY OF DOGS.
There is not incongruity in the idea namely in the quite premier duration of man's habitation of this earth he made a friend and associate of some arrange of original representative of our modern dog, and that in return as its support in protecting him from wilder animals, and in guarding his sheep and goats, he gave it a share of his food, a edge in his quarters, and grew to confidence it and a standing ovation it. Probably the beast was originally tiny else than an unusually cordial jackal, alternatively one diseased wolf driven by its companions from the savage marauding package to quest asylum in alien surroundings. One can well suppose the possibility of the partnership beginning in the case of some helpless whelps creature brought home by the early hunters to be tended and reared by the women and children. Dogs introduced into the home for playthings for the children would grow to regard themselves, and be regarded, for members of the family
In nearly all chapters of the globe traces of an indigenous dog household are base, the only exceptions being the West Indian Islands, Madagascar, the east isles of the Malayan Archipelago,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], New Zealand, and the Polynesian Islands, where there is no sign that anyone dog, wolf, or fox has existed as a true aboriginal animal. In the ancient Oriental lands, and generally surrounded the early Mongolians, the dog remained savage and omitted for centuries, prowling in packs, gaunt and wolf-like, as it prowls today through the streets and under the wall of every Eastern metropolis. No offer was made to allure it into person companionship or to cultivate it into docility. It is not until we come to survey the records of the higher civilisations of Assyria and Egypt that we discover anyone distinct varieties of canine form.
The dog was not greatly appreciated in Palestine, and in both the Old and New Testaments it is usually oral of with scorn and contempt as an "unclean animal." Even the familiar reference to the Sheepdog in the Book of Job "But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose dads I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock" is no without a proposal of contempt, and it is significant that the only biblical allusion to the dog as a recognised companion of male occurs in the apocryphal Book of Tobit (v. 16), "So they went ahead both, and the young man's dog with them."
The large crowd of alter breeds of the dog and the vast differences in their size, points, and general outward are facts which make it difficult to believe that they could have had a prevalent ancestry. One thinks of the difference among the Mastiff and the Japanese Spaniel, the Deerhound and the new Pomeranian, the St. Bernard and the Miniature Black and Tan Terrier, and is baffled in contemplating the feasibility of their having descended from a mutual progenitor. Yet the disparity is not greater than that among the Shire horse and the Shetland pony, the Shorthorn and the Kerry livestock, or the Patagonian and the Pygmy; and all dog breeders know how effortless it is to produce a variety in type and size by studied culling.
In mandate properly to understand this answer it is needful premier to think the identity of architecture in the wolf and the dog. This identity of structure may best be learned in a approximation of the osseous system, or frames, of the two animals, which so closely resemble every additional that their transposition would not lightly be found.
The spine of the dog consists of 7 vertebrae in the neck,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], thirteen in the back, seven in the loins, 3 sacral vertebrae,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and twenty to twenty-two in the tail. In both the dog and the wolf there are thirteen couples of ribs, 9 true and 4 false. Each has forty-two teeth. They both have 5 front and 4 hind toes, while outwardly the common wolf has so much the appearance of a massive, bare-boned dog, that a fashionable detailing of the one would serve for the additional.
Nor are their habits assorted. The wolf's normal voice is a loud roar, but when confined with dogs he will learn to bark. Although he is carnivorous,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he will too dine vegetables, and when sickly he will chew grass. In the chase, a pack of wolves will divide into parties, 1 following the trail of the quarry, the additional endeavouring to intercept its withdraw, exercising a considerable measure of strategy, a feature which is displayed by numerous of our sporting dogs and terriers when hounding in groups.
A further major point of resemblance between the Canis lupus and the Canis familiaris lies in the fact that the duration of gestation in both category is sixty-three days. There are from three to 9 cubs in a wolf's trash, and these are blind for twenty-one days. They are suckled for two months, but at the end of that period they are able to dine half-digested flesh disgorged for them by their dam or even their sire.
The countryman dogs of all regions near closely in size, coloration, fashion, and accustomed to the countryman wolf of those regions. Of this maximum momentous circumstance there are far too many examples to grant of its being saw upon as a mere coincidence. Sir John Richardson, writing in 1829, scrutinized that "the likeness between the North American wolves and the servant dog of the Indians is so great that the size and strength of the wolf seems to be the merely difference.
It has been recommended that the one incontrovertible contention against the lupine relationship of the dog is the fact that all domestic dogs bark, while all wild Canidae express their feelings only by howls. But the difficulty here is not so great as it seems, since we kas long asjackals, wild dogs, and wolf pups reared by bitches readily procure the accustomed. On the other hand, domestic dogs allowed to sprint wild forget how to bark, while there are some which have as yet educated so to express themselves.
The presence or paucity of the habit of barking cannot, then, be regarded as an argument in deciding the answer caring the origin of the dog. This stumbling block accordingly disappears, leaving us in the situation of coinciding with Darwin, whose last hypothesis was that "it is highly likely that the domestic dogs of the world have descended from two good species of wolf (C. lupus and C. latrans), and from two or three other dubious species of wolves namely, the European, Indian, and North African forms; from at fewest one or two South American canine species; from several races or species of jackal; and perhaps from one or extra extinct species"; and that the blood of these, in some cases united attach, flows in the capillaries of our domestic breeds.
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