It is amazing how similar their behavior and mannerisms are to domestic dogs, even though they are more distantly related to domestic dogs than we are to chimpanzees
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January 28, 2012 by retrieverman
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Are canids dog-like .. . .or dogs canid-like? Yesterday I had the pleasure of watching a grey fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) hunting pocket gophers and then go after something (I couldn’t see what) in the ground. By movement and behaviour, he (she?) could have passed for a dog . . . just a little bit too flexible through the spine and light of foot. No dog has equivalent ears, sharp muzzle, bushy tail, and shyness (startle reaction not at all dog-like). He seemed to be playing as much as hunting whatever it was in the ground, complete with tail wagging.
Has anyone studied the taxonomy of tail wagging? Do all cats twitch and all canids wag? Do all canid pups/kits play dog tag?
Canid just refers to the dog family, which is Canidae.
That’s an interesting hypothesis on tail wagging. I don’t know if anyone has.
“That’s an interesting hypothesis on tail wagging. I don’t know if anyone has.”
— Actually, people have made that observation. All wild canids for which behavioral studies exist exhibit puppy-like play behavior, including “bowing”. and tail-wagging is also universal among canids – even those with very bushy tails, like foxes, and with very short tails, like South American Bush Dogs.
Yeah dogs all wag, but not all dogs do play bows. Most Jack Russells I’ve known don’t give that behavior and don’t read it.
I was referring to the cat and dog comparison.
No one has made any analysis of how cats and dogs have evolved their body languages.