“His closest friend was his loyal canine.”

“He tried to push Kissu into his cage, but the cougar charged back out and sank his canines into Wilson's rump.”

“She is an apologist of sublime lewdness, of emancipated human caninity.”

“It has a heavy skull and a massive neck, and it is also by far the shortest-legged and least cursorial canid.”

“The evolution of the canid and felid brain was studied through examination of fossil and Recent cranial endocasts.”

“What he realised is that the Australian dingo is the original canid that formed an alliance with humans.”

“The animals have long sharp canines and broad flat molars that grind shells.”

“Generations of East Texans had hunted deer with dogs, depending on the howling canines to roust deer from the region's thickets.”

“The canines, which are present in both upper and lower jaws, are medium-sized and hooked.”

“Of further interest, these canids also tend toward facultative monogamy and toward minimal sexual dimorphism.”

“Unlike most large canids, wild dogs do not announce their presence by howling, but with a scent message that can last for months.”

“Certainly, paternal care is the general rule amongst canids so it might be expected in the maned wolf.”