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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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s born with its eyes closed; it opens them on the tenth or twelfth day; its teeth commence chano ingin the fourth month, and its full growth is attained at the expiration of the second year. The female remains withyoung sixty-three days, and produces from six to ten young at a birth. The Dog is old at fifteen years, and seldom Bcc>-uiit for the savipe and distrustful tlinracttr which U exhibitswhen uiircclnimed ; thuugh even then the germs of a better dispositionare traceable in the permanent attachNieiit of the male and female,aud sociality of the young till urgent neeessitf, or the annual periodof diiiiiinant Kexual excitement, subdues every milder prnpensitf audaciinired seuiiment of friendship or ilisiiitercHted affection. In the late edition of Dr. Priclmrds work on Man, an old error hrevived, which originated with BufTon, but which that naturalistafterwards c)rrecled ; uamely, that the period of gestation in theWolf is much shorter than in the Dog. It is precisely the same ui
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?alian Dog. * A specimen, which attained two years of age, aud is preservedin the Museum of Dresden, measured only five inches and ahalf in leniith ; this being exactly the same length, fnim the Cfirner ofthe eye to the tip of tlie nose, of a Ssxon buar-huuiid examined byCol. Hamilton Smith.—Ed. t If the idea, which I conceive there is every reason to entertain,respecting the origin nf the Domestic Dog be well founded, it is clearthat a recurrence to a single wild type would be impossible. The Dugis apparently a blended race, derived principally from the Wolf, andpartly from various other allied species, in the Museum of theZoolugi-lal Society of London, there is a specimen of an Esquimaux Dog, whichresembles the large American Wolf [C. mibiiut) so closely, that therecan scarcely be any doubt of the connexion which subsists betweenthem; and it is well known, of the American Wolves in particular,that if a young animal be surpriseil by a hunter, and suddenly menaced bv his roice and
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