I am native to South Asia, which includes India and China and some other places as well. I am sometimes called the Indian Whistling dog, Asian wild dog, and the mountain wolf. My name is Ban Kutta, but you can just call me Ben. Canids are truly a treasure of the natural world. This social nature could explain why it was a canid that came out of the wild and formed a special partnership with humans. Dholes have been know to have packs with up to 40 members. Canids are often very social animals, living in large packs. The ratio between the upper and the lower defines the canids dietary habits. The upper is used for cutting and the lower carnassial is used for grinding. This can be determined by their dentition that consists of sharp canine teeth and the carnassial (the upper pre-molar and lower molar) which are optimized for shearing meat and tendons. Some canids have a purely carnivorous diet (like the African painted dogs and dholes) and some are omnivores (coyotes and red foxes), but none are solely herbivores. Canids vary is size, from the smallest, the fennec fox at about 24 cm (9.4 in) in length and weigh 0.6 kg (1.3 lb) to the largest, the gray wolf at up to 160 cm (5.2 ft) long, and can weigh up to 79 kg (174 lb). Yep man’s best friend, the domesticated dog, was the first domesticated animal. A canid was the first domesticated animal. Now, they extend the world over and inhabit all continents with the exception of Antarctica. By using both the Bearing sea land bridge and the bridge created by the uncovering of Central America, over a span of millions of years, they were able to greatly expand their range. Canids first evolved about 40 million years ago in North America. A canid is a mammal in the Family Canidae and includes wolf-like canids, fox-like canids, the South American canids, and a few special canids.
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